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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)
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Related topics
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Endangered Languages Project
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Unclassified language
List of languages by total number of speakers
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This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant.
There are 130 languages listed. 15 from Central Asia, 21 from East Asia, 15 from South Asia, 18 from Southeast Asia, 12 from Siberia and 49 from West Asia.
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