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.
This page should include a link to the language's page, geographical localization and an aproximative number of speakers
Africa
Americas
- indigenous languages of Canada:
- Abenaki, 10 speakers
- Beaver, 300 speakers
- Cayuga, 360 speakers
- Delaware (Munsee), fewer than 10 speakers
- Han, few speakers
- Hare, 600 speakers
- Michif, spoken by fewer than 1,000 people in western Canada
- Onandaga, fewer than 100 speakers
- Oneida, 200 speakers
- Potawatomi, 100 speakers
- Sarcee, 10 speakers
- Seneca, 25 speakers
- indigenous languages of the USA:
- indigenous languages of South America
- Ofayé - around 15 speakers, in Mato Grosso do Sul, Central Brazil
Asia
- Ainu, Northern Japan, 1,000 speakers
- Aramaic, Lebanon, Kurdistan
- Chukchi, Siberia, circa 10,400 speakers (2001)
- Manchu, northeast China, less than 100 speakers
- Udmurt, Udmurtia, Russia
- Northern indigenous peoples of Russia
- Macaista Chapado (also called Patuá)
Australia
Europe
- European Union
- Outside of the European Union
See also
External link
sl:seznam ogroženih jezikov
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