ELL: Re: RE: Percentage of Language

[Peter Constable]

> Building away in cyberworlds as I am, I decided to start building
something
>which in some way has to draw attention to the situation of endagered
>languages. Could anyone of you provide me with a listing of say 200
strongly
>endangered languages from different corners of the globe?

Have you tried looking in the Ethnologue for languages with, say, fewer
than 100 speakers? If I recall, Australia has a significant number of
languages for which the speaker population is reportedly on the order of
dozens or fewer.



- Peter


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Peter Constable

Non-Roman Script Initiative, SIL International
7500 W. Camp Wisdom Rd., Dallas, TX 75236, USA
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E-mail: <peter_constable at sil.org>


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