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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=Default><b><span style='font-size:15.5pt;color:windowtext'>The world’s languages in crisis: A 20-year update </span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>by Paul Lewis and Gary Simons</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=Default><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>“The world’s languages in crisis” (Krauss 1992) ... surveyed the global situation and estimated that only 10% of languages seem safe in the long term, up to 50% may already be moribund, and the remainder are in danger of becoming moribund by the end of this century. Twenty years later, better information is available. In this paper we use information from the latest edition of the <i>Ethnologue </i>(Lewis 2009), plus information being gathered for the next edition, to offer an update to the global statistics on language viability.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><a href="http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/Wisconsin%20Symposium.pdf">http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/Wisconsin%20Symposium.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dave Pearson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Permanent Representative to UNESCO<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>SIL International<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kenya Mobile: +254 786439837 <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>UK Mobile: +44 7985 256 581<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Office: +254 202 723 793<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Skype: dave_pearson_sil<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Web: www.sil.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language<br>development, by means of research, translation, training and materials development.</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>