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- Endangered_language abstract "An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers, and becomes a "dead language". If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language". While languages have always become extinct throughout human history, they are currently disappearing at an accelerated rate due to the processes of globalization and neo-colonialism, where the economically powerful languages dominate other languages. More commonly spoken languages dominate the less commonly spoken languages and therefore, the less commonly spoken languages eventually disappear. The total number of languages in the world is not known. Estimates vary depending on many factors. The general consensus is that there are between 6000 and 7000 languages currently spoken, and that between 50-90% of those will have become extinct by the year 2100. The top 20 languages spoken by more than 50 million speakers each, are spoken by 50% of the world's population, whereas many of the other languages are spoken by small communities, most of them with fewer than 10,000 speakers.UNESCO operates with five levels of language endangerment: "safe", "vulnerable" (not spoken by children outside the home), "definitely endangered" (children not speaking), "severely endangered" (only spoken by the oldest generations), "critically endangered" (spoken by few members of the oldest generation, often semi-speakers). Using an alternative scheme of classification, linguist Michael E. Krauss defines languages as "safe" if it is considered that children will probably be speaking them in 100 years; "endangered" if children will probably not be speaking them in 100 years (approximately 60-80% of languages fall into this category); and "moribund" if children are not speaking them now.There is a general consensus that the loss of languages harms the cultural diversity of the world, although some linguists argue that it is a natural process that does not require remedy.[citation needed] Many projects are under way aimed at preventing or slowing this loss by revitalizing endangered languages and promoting education and literacy in minority languages. Across the world many countries have enacted specific legislation aimed at protecting and stabilizing the language of indigenous speech communities. A minority of linguists have argued that language loss is a natural process that should not be counteracted, and that recording endangered languages for posterity is sufficient. Only a small number of speakers of endangered languages consider it a good thing that their indigenous language might be lost, although many consider that switching to a majority language is likely to alleviate social stigma and increase economic opportunities. However the vast majority of speakers of endangered languages consider the loss of their language to be a vital break with their cultural identity and tradition, and many work actively to counteract the impending language loss, often working closely with linguists in revitalization projects. Recognizing that most of the world's endangered languages are unlikely to be revitalized, many linguists are working on documenting the thousands of languages of the world about which little or nothing is known. Their work may prove helpful both for the science of linguistics and in the future for the descendants of the speech communities, should they wish to learn about their ancestral language after it has become extinct.".
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- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink aicls.org.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink talks.php.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink get-nearly-extinct.cfm.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink main.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink schola.ning.com.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink enduring-voices.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink EGIDS.pdf.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.cilldi.ualberta.ca.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.endangeredlanguages.com.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.endangeredlanguages.com.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink indigenous-languages.html.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink apps.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.hrelp.org.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.ilinative.org.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink endangered-languages.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink hotspots.html.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink DOBES.
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- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.rnld.org.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink www.saivus.org.
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- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink live-winona-laduke-speaks-on-biocultural-diversity-language-and-environmental-endangerment.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink 2003Headland.PDF.
- Endangered_language wikiPageExternalLink endangered-languages.
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- Endangered_language comment "An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers, and becomes a "dead language". If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language".".
- Endangered_language label "Bedreigde taal".
- Endangered_language label "Bedrohte Sprache".
- Endangered_language label "Endangered language".
- Endangered_language label "Idioma amenazado".
- Endangered_language label "Język zagrożony wymarciem".
- Endangered_language label "Langues en voie de disparition".
- Endangered_language label "Lingua in pericolo".
- Endangered_language label "Língua ameaçada de extinção".
- Endangered_language label "Степени сохранности языков".
- Endangered_language label "لغة مهددة بالانقراض".
- Endangered_language label "危機に瀕する言語".
- Endangered_language label "瀕危語言".
- Endangered_language sameAs Bedrohte_Sprache.
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- Endangered_language sameAs Bahasa_terancam.
- Endangered_language sameAs Lingua_in_pericolo.
- Endangered_language sameAs 危機に瀕する言語.
- Endangered_language sameAs 소멸위기언어.
- Endangered_language sameAs Bedreigde_taal.
- Endangered_language sameAs Język_zagrożony_wymarciem.
- Endangered_language sameAs Língua_ameaçada_de_extinção.
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- Endangered_language sameAs Q335214.
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- Endangered_language depiction Linguistic_diversity.png.
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