List of endangered languages in North America information
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
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories
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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 speakers, 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
North America is a continent in the Earth's northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the southeast by the Caribbean Sea, and on the south and west by the North Pacific Ocean; South America lies to the southeast. It covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometres (9,540,000 sq mi), about 4.8% of the planet's surface or about 16.5% of its land area. As of July 2007, its population was estimated at nearly 524 million people.
Today, North America only has a total of 256 living languages. However, out of those 256 languages, 238 are in the realm of extinction.[2] That is, 92% of languages that are dying. The United States has the highest number of dying languages, 143 out of 219 languages,[3] then Canada with 75 dying out of its 94 languages,[4] and lastly, Greenland has the smallest number, nil of its two spoken languages.[5]
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Moseley, Christopher, ed. (2010). Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Memory of Peoples (3rd ed.). Paris: UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-104096-2. Retrieved 2015-04-11.
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extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels oflanguageendangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": Vulnerable Definitely endangered Severely...
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