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 distribution among age cohorts. There may be 200,000 mother tongue speakers of the Breton language over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2,000 under 25 years of age - thus it is likely Breton will die out in the next half century. On the other hand, while there are 30,000 Ladin language speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue - thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century.

 This page should include a link to the language's page, geographical localization and an approximate number of speakers

 Americas 
 Michif, spoken by fewer than 1,000 people in western Canada
 indigenous languages of Canada:
 Abenaki, 10 speakers
 Dane-zaa, 300 speakers
 Cayuga, 360 speakers
 Delaware (Munsee), fewer than 10 speakers
 Hare, 600 speakers
 Onandaga, fewer than 100 speakers
 Oneida, 200 speakers
 Potawatomi, 100 speakers
 Tsuut'ina, 10 speakers
 Seneca, 25 speakers
 Tlingit, 200 speakers
 indigenous languages of the USA:
 Hawaiian language, Hawaii

 Asia 
 Ainu, Northern Japan, 15 speakers
 Aramaic, Lebanon, Kurdistan
 Chukchi, Siberia, circa 10,400 speakers (2001)
 Udmurt, various parts of Russia
 Northern indigenous peoples of Russia
 Beechistani ,Somewhere in Northern India(Beechistaan), 6 speakers
Sanskrit, Nepal-India, Less than 500 speakers, According to Indian history, Sanskrit is the mother of all Indo-European languages.
Athpahariya language, Athpahariya
Bahing language, Bahing
Barām language, Barām
Chepang language
Kumāle language, Kumāle
Kusunda language, Kusunda
Surel language, Surel

 Australia 
 all aboriginal languages

 Europe 
 European Union
Alsatian (France) very fast decline
 Aragonese (Spain) very fast decline
 Aromanian (Greece) very fast decline
 Basque (Spain and France) very fast decline
 Breton (France) very fast decline
 Catalan (France) very fast decline
 Corsican (France) very fast decline
 Catalan (Italy) very fast decline
 Livonian, Estonia, 35 speakers
 South Italian Greek (Italy) very fast decline
 Istro-Romanian, Istria Croatia, 500 speakers
 Italkian (Judeo-Italian) (Italy) nearly extinct
 Molise Slavic (Italy) very fast decline
 Occitan (France) very fast decline
 Sami languages, (Scandinavia), some having fewer than 100 speakers
 Lower Sorbian, (Germany) very fast decline
 West Flemish (France) very fast decline
 Yevanic (Judeo-Greek) (Greece) probably extinct
 Outside of the European Union
 Belarusian, very low usage in Belarus
 Krimchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar)
 Mordvin (Russia), steady decline
 Erzya language
 Moksha language
Scottish Gaelic (United Kingdom) very fast decline
Votian, Russia, 50 speakers

Related pages
 endangered language
 list of extinct languages
 Language families and languages
 Language policy

References

 Other websites 
 UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages

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Category:Endangered languages