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Language Endangerment Status
by UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger category
Extinct (EX)
Extinct (EX)
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Endangered
Critically Endangered (CR)
Severely Endangered (SE)
Definitely Endangered (DE)
Vulnerable (VU)
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Safe
Safe (NE)
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Other categories
Revived (RE)
Constructed (CL)
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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
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List of languages by total number of speakers
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This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.
There are 49 languages listed; 11 from Eastern Africa, 8 from Middle Africa, 17 from Northern Africa, 3 from Southern Africa, 10 from Western Africa.
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