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Feb 21, 2022 · Of the 7,000 languages currently spoken in the world, 6,700 are indigenous, and it is precisely these that are most threatened. In 2019, the UN celebrated the International Year of Indigenous Languages.
Jan 5, 2022 · There are 7,000 documented languages currently spoken across the world, but half of them could be endangered, according to a new study. It is predicted that 1,500 known languages may no longer be spoken by the end of this century.
This free Internet-based version of the Atlas is interactive: the user can set various search parameters (vitality, country, number of speakers, name) to filter information on endangered languages and navigate using a dynamic map interface. All of this can be done in French, English or Spanish.
In order to be listed, a language must be classified as "endangered" in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [1] The lists are organized by region.
Dec 16, 2021 · The processes of endangerment are ongoing 10, with rates of loss estimated as equivalent to a language lost every one to three months 7, 11, 12, and the most pessimistic predictions suggesting...
The general consensus is that there are between 6,000 [5] and 7,000 languages currently spoken. Some linguists estimate that between 50% and 90% of them will be severely endangered or dead by the year 2100. [3] .
Jan 21, 2008 · For example, the Catalogue of Endangered Languages lists 407 languages as “critically endangered,” with 257 of these languages having fewer than nine speakers. Unless language revitalization programs for these languages prove successful, all will soon be extinct.
