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UNESCO has published, online, their guide to endangered languages
around the world. The interactive site allows you to look at
individual countries and regions, with many other variables. A quick
look at Mexico is very depressing. Listed as critically endangered is
Tabasco Nahuatl, among others.<br>
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href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00139">http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00139</a><br>
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<p>UNESCO's <em>Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger</em> is
intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to
safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker
communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the
status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity
at the global level. </p>
<p>The latest edition of the Atlas (2009) lists about 2,500 languages
(among which 230 languages extinct since 1950), approaching the
generally-accepted estimate of some 3,000 endangered languages
worldwide. For each language, the Atlas provides its name, degree of
endangerment (see below) and the country or countries where it is
spoken. </p>
<p>The <strong><a
href="http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206">online
edition</a></strong>
provides additional information on numbers of speakers, relevant
policies and projects, sources, ISO codes and geographic coordinates.
This free Internet-based version of the Atlas for the first time
permits wide accessibility and allows for interactivity and timely
updating of information, based on feedback provided by users. </p>
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John F. Schwaller
President
SUNY - Potsdam
44 Pierrepont Ave.
Potsdam, NY 13676
Tel. 315-267-2100
FAX 315-267-2496</pre>
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