List of endangered languages in Africa information
Endangered languages on the continent of Africa
Language Endangerment Status
by UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger category
Extinct (EX)
Extinct (EX)
(lists)
Endangered
Critically Endangered (CR)
Severely Endangered (SE)
Definitely Endangered (DE)
Vulnerable (VU)
(list)
(list)
(list)
(list)
Safe
Safe (NE)
(lists)
Other categories
Revived (RE)
Constructed (CL)
(list)
(list)
Related topics
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Endangered Languages Project
Ethnologue
Unclassified language
List of languages by total number of speakers
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An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native people, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct":[1]
Vulnerable
Definitely endangered
Severely endangered
Critically endangered
Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent. At about 30.2 million km2 (11.7 million sq mi) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.[2] With about 922 million people (as of 2005)[3] in 61 territories, it accounts for about 16.1% of the world's human population. The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. There are 64 countries, including Madagascar and all the island groups.
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^Sayre, April Pulley. (1999) Africa, Twenty-First Century Books. ISBN 0-7613-1367-2.
^"World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision" Archived 2010-08-19 at the Wayback Machine United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, population division)
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