Endangered languages

!Kung or !’O!Kung is a group of northern dialects of the Ju dialect continuum, which is generally classified as part of the Khoisan language family. !Kung is spoken in northern Namibia and southern Angola by perhaps 15,000 Saan, though this number is uncertain due to the possibility of double counting populations that go by more than one name. ...more on Wikipedia about "!Kung language"

Ahtna or Ahtena is the Na-Dene language of the Ahtna ethnic group of the Copper River area of Alaska. The language is also known as Copper River or Mednovskiy. There are 80 speakers out of a population of 500, and the language is facing extinction. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahtna language"

The Ainu language (Ainu: アイヌイタク, aynu itak; Japanese: アイヌ語, ainu-go) is spoken by the Ainu ethnic group on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido. It was once spoken in the Kurile Islands, the northern part of Honshu, and the southern half of Sakhalin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ainu language"

Anfillo is a Northern Omotic language spoken in Western Ethiopia by a few hundred people. The term Anfillo is used to refer both to the language and the people found in a small community in the so-called Anfillo Wereda, in the West Wellega Zone. The language is on the verge of extinction as it is spoken only by adults above the age of sixty. All younger generations have shifted to the Nilo-Saharan language of the Busase people. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anfillo language"

Argobba is an Ethiopic language that spoken in an area north-east of Addis Ababa. It belongs to the South-Ethio Semitic subgroup together with Amharic and the Gurage languages. Writing in the mid- 1960s, Edward Ullendorff noted that it "is disappearing rapidly in favour of Amharic, and only a few hundred elderly people are still able to speak it." ...more on Wikipedia about "Argobba language"

Arvanitic or Arvanitika ( Arbëríshte, in Greek: Αρβανίτικα Arvanítika) is a language spoken by the Arvanites, a people of Greece. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arvanitic language"

The Bete language of Nigeria is a nearly extinct language spoken by a small minority of the 3,000 inhabitants of Bete Town, Takum Local Government Authority, Taraba State; its speakers have mostly shifted to Jukun. It is reported to have been close to Lufu and Bibi. It belongs in the Jukunoid subfamily of Niger-Congo, according to the Vienna Yukuben Project and the Ethnologue (15th ed.), though the latter formerly listed it as unclassified. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bete language" Please inform your friends about shortopedia

Bikya (also known as Furu) is a language of the Niger-Congo family that is spoken in Cameroon. It is unknown if this language is still extant. In 1986 four surviving speakers were identified, although only one (a man in his seventies) spoke the language fluently. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bikya language"

The Bom language is an endangered language of Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family and is particularly closely related to the Bullom So language. Most speakers are bilingual in Mende, and use of the Bom language is declining among members of the ethnic group. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bom language"

The Bullom So language, also called Mmani or Mandingi, is an endangered language spoken near the border between Guinea and Sierra Leone. It belongs to the Atlantic branch of the Niger-Congo language family and is particularly closely related to the Bom language. The people have intermarried with Temne and Susu speakers. As the few remaining speakers of Bullom So are all over 60, the language is considered moribund. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bullom So language"

The Bung language is a nearly extinct language of Cameroon spoken by 3 people (in 1995) at the village of Boung on the Adamawa Plateau. A wordlist collected for it shows its strongest resemblance to be with the Ndung dialect of Kwanja, although that may simply be because this has become the village's dominant language. It also has words in common with Tep, Somyev, and Vute, while a number of words' origins remain unclear (possibly Adamawan). For lack of data, it is not definitively classified. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bung language"

The Carrier language is a Northern Athabaskan language. It is named after the Dakelh First Nations people, for whom Carrier is the usual English name. People who are referred to as Carrier speak two related languages. One, Babine-Witsuwit'en is sometimes referred to as Northern Carrier. The other, Carrier proper, includes what are sometimes referred to as Central Carrier and Southern Carrier. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carrier language"

Chilula was an Athapaskan tribe on or near lower Redwood creek, California 500 to 600 years before White contact (Kroeber). They are now incorporated with the Hoopa and live mainly on the Hoopa Reservation. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chilula"

Chiricahua is a Southern Athabaskan language spoken by the Chiricahua tribe in Oklahoma and New Mexico. It is very closely related to the Mescalero language and more distantly related to Navajo and Western Apache. Chiricahua has been described in great detail by the anthropological linguist Harry Hoijer (1904-1976), especially in Hoijer & Opler (1938) and Hoijer (1946). Hoijer & Opler's Chiricahua and Mescalero Apache Texts (including a grammatical sketch and traditional religious and secular stories) has been converted into an online "book" available from the University of Viriginia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chiricahua language"

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Chulyum also known as Chulym-Turkic, Chulym Tatar (not at all related to the Tatar language), or Küerik is the language of the Chulyms. This name originated from a now extinct tribe. Chulyum is an endangered language since its estimated only 100 fully fluent speakers. The speakers are located in Russia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chulym language"

The Comox are a group of Salishan speaking people in British Columbia. They speak the Comox language. ...more on Wikipedia about "Comox people"

Probably the most divergent of all Arabic dialects is Cypriot Maronite Arabic, still spoken by most of the 130 elderly Maronite Catholics in Kormakiti (Korucam) in Northern Cyprus, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Brought to the island by Maronites fleeing Lebanon at least 700 years ago, this unique variety of Arabic has been very heavily influenced by Greek in both phonology and vocabulary, while retaining certain unusually archaic features in other respects. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cypriot Maronite Arabic"

Dahalo is an endangered South Cushitic language spoken by about 400 people in Kenya. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dahalo language"

The Defaka (sometimes called Afakani) are a small ethnic group of south-western Nigeria, numbering less than a thousand people. They live in the eastern part of the Niger Delta, Rivers State, Bonny District; part of them in the Afakani quarter of Nkoroo town in close relationship with the Nkoroo people, and another part of them on the isolated island of Iwoma Nkoro, near Kono. Present neighbours of the Defaka, apart from the Nkoroo people, are: at Iwoma, the Ogoni people (speakers of Ogoni/Kana/Khana), and to the east, the Obolo. The Defaka have a less cordial relationship with these peoples than with the Nkoroo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Defaka"

Dena’ina (also Tanaina) is the Athabaskan language of Eklutna, Cook Inlet and the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. The ancestral territory of the Dena’ina tribe surrounds Cook Inlet, including the present-day location of Anchorage, Alaska. Nondalton on Lake Clark and Lime Village on the Stony River are also current and ancestral regions of Dena’ina. It is commonly held to have four dialects: ...more on Wikipedia about "Dena’ina language"

The Dunneza (also Dunne-za, Beaver, Tasttine) are Athapaskan Aboriginal peoples whose traditional territory is around the Peace River of Alberta, Canada. Prior to 1800, however, they inhabited lands further east, near the Athabasca and Clearwater Rivers, and north to Lake Athabaska. In the 1700s, this area was opened to fur trading. The Chippewa, a powerful people to the east of the Dunneza, had become highly dependant on the European goods and the maintenance of a trade monopoly with the traders. To maintain their proximity and influence, the Chippewa moved with the traders westward into the Athabaska, forcing the Dunneza north and west from their lands to those near the Peace River. By 1800, the Dunneza had relocated to this new territory. They were formerly known as the Beaver Tribe. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dunneza"

Eastern Pomo (also Clear Lake Pomo) is an endangered Pomoan language spoken around Clear Lake in Lake County, California by one of the several Pomo peoples. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eastern Pomo language"

Eyak is a Na-Dené language that was historically spoken in southcentral Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper River. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eyak language"

The Formosan languages are a group of Austronesian languages spoken by 2% of the population of Taiwan, almost exclusively aboriginals. The Formosan language family is an immediate decendant of the Austronesian language family, and some scholars even speculated that they are ancestral to the rest of the Austronesian language family. Depending on the classification, there are around 20 Formosan languages known, a number of them already extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Formosan languages"

The Haida language is the language of the Haida people. It contains no less than 46 consonants and only three vowels. Though once considered to be a member of the Na-Dené language family, it is now considered to be a language isolate. ...more on Wikipedia about "Haida language"

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