Endangered Languages
How do researchers know when a language is dying? Does "endangered" mean "doomed?" SIL is concerned for languages, the people who speak them, and the cultures they express. Many factors contribute to a language becoming endangered. SIL makes concerted efforts to survey languages, evaluate their vitality, facilitate language development, and where possible, prevent loss of language and culture. The danger of languages dying out is real, but SIL believes every language and culture is part of the mosaic of humanity.
More on Endangered Languages
- FAQ about Endangered Languages
- Ethnologue
Report of Nearly Extinct Languages
- Assessing Language Vitality
- Endangered Language Groups: What's the Fuss?
- From Endangered to Less Endangered: Case Histories from Brazil and Papua New Guinea
- Global Language Viability: Causes, Symptoms and Cures for Endangered Languages
- Highly endangered languages in Papua New Guinea
- Indicators of Ethnolinguistic Vitality
- Towards a Categorization of Endangerment of the World's Languages
- Why Care about Endangered Languages?