• scottyjoe9
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    1 year ago

    I think people call languages with very few native speakers “endangered languages”.

    • elxeno@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      They need to capture some of those languages for some captive breeding.

    • Borkingheck@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Unescos ratings are: Vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered and critically endangered. Once a language loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language [but can be revived].

      Welsh and also Scots are vulnerable whilst Scottish Gaelic and Irish are definitely endangered.