endangered languages list

Aidan Wilson aidan at USYD.EDU.AU
Fri Aug 24 01:47:08 UTC 2007


That reminds me, ethnologue has an interesting page on statistics, 
number of language by population size, by area, etc.,
http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=size
They also have a list of 'nearly extinct languages', though many of the 
sources they cite go back decades:
http://www.ethnologue.com/nearly_extinct.asp
-A

Wayne Leman wrote:
> Wikipedia list:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_endangered_languages
>
> Caveat emptor!
> Wayne Leman
>
>
>>
>>> Just out of interest, does anyone know if/where the UNESCO list of 
>>> endangered languages is available?
>>> -Aidan



More information about the Ilat mailing list