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List of endangered languages
A list of endangered languages (with fewer than 1000 speakers or with very fast decline).
In order to judge if a language is actually endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the age distribution; there may be 500,000 speakers of the Breton language over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2,000 under 25 years of age - it is likely Breton will die out in the next half-century. On the other hand, while there are 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mothertongue, thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century.
Africa
Americas
- indigenous languages of Canada:
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Abenaki, 10 speakers
- Beaver , 300 speakers
- Cayuga , 360 speakers
- Delaware (Munsee ), fewer than 10 speakers
- Han , few speakers
- Hare , 600 speakers
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Michif, spoken by fewer than 1,000 people in western Canada
- Onandaga , fewer than 100 speakers
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Oneida, 200 speakers
- Potawatomi , 100 speakers
- Sarcee , 10 speakers
- Seneca , 25 speakers
- indigenous languages of the USA:
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Catawba - Last fluent speaker died in 1996.
- Coos - 1 or 2 speakers
- Cowlitz - 1 or 2 speakers
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Eyak - 1 speaker
- Eastern Abnaki - 1 speaker
- Kalapuya - 1 or 2 speakers in 1962
- Klamth-Modoc - 1 speaker in 1998
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Lipan Apache - 2 or 3 speakers
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Menominee - 65 first or second language speakers (1997)
- Serrano - 1 speaker
- Tagish - 2 speakers
- Upper Chehalis - 2 speakers
- Wappo - 1 speaker
- indigenous languages of South America
- Ofayé - around 15 speakers, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Central Brazil
Asia
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Ainu, Northern Japan, 1,000 speakers
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Aramaic, Lebanon, Kurdistan
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Chukchi, Siberia, circa 10,400 speakers (2001)
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Chulym, Russia, approx. 100 fluent speakers
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Manchu, northeast China, less than 100 speakers
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Udmurt, Udmurtia, Russia
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Northern indigenous peoples of Russia
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Macaista Chapado (also called Patuá)
Australasia
Europe
- European Union
- Outside of the European Union
See also
External link
Last updated: 08-17-2005 22:22:30
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