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Endangered languages

List of endangered languages in the world.

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Votian

Language; Endangered languages

Votian is the language spoken by the Votes of Ingria. It is closely related to Estonian and belongs to the Finnic subgroup of Uralic languages. Votian is spoken only in Krakolye and Luzhitsy, two ...

Leonese

Language; Endangered languages

Leonese is the endonym term used to refer to all vernacular Romance dialects of the Astur-Leonese linguistic group in the Spanish provinces of León and Zamora; Astur-Leonese also includes the ...

Franco-Provençal

Language; Endangered languages

It is a Romance language with several distinct dialects that form a linguistic sub-group separate from Langue d'Oïl and Langue d'Oc. The name Franco-Provençal was given to the language by G.I. Ascoli ...

Inari Sámi

Language; Endangered languages

Inari Sámi is a Uralic, Sami language spoken by the Inari Sami of Finland. It has approximately 300 speakers, the majority of whom are middle-aged or older and live in the municipality of Inari. ...

Chuvash

Language; Endangered languages

Chuvash is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Chuvash Republic and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages. The writing ...

Boruca

Language; Endangered languages

Boruca is the native language of the Boruca people of Costa Rica. It is one of the Chibchan languages. It is nearly extinct; it was spoken fluently by only five women in 1986, while 30 to 35 others ...

Pipil

Language; Endangered languages

Pipil (natively Nawat) is a Uto-Aztecan language descended from Nahuatl which was spoken in several parts of present day Central America before the Spanish conquest. It is on the verge of extinction ...

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