[Aztlan] Endangered Languages

[John F. Schwaller]

UNESCO has published, online, their guide to endangered languages around 
the world.  The interactive site allows you to look at individual 
countries and regions, with many other variables.  A quick look at 
Mexico is very depressing.

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00139
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> UNESCO's /Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger/ is intended to 
> raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard 
> the world's linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker 
> communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the 
> status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity 
> at the global level.
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> The latest edition of the Atlas (2009) lists about 2,500 languages 
> (among which 230 languages extinct since 1950), approaching the 
> generally-accepted estimate of some 3,000 endangered languages 
> worldwide. For each language, the Atlas provides its name, degree of 
> endangerment (see below) and the country or countries where it is spoken.
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> The *online edition 
> <http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00206>* provides 
> additional information on numbers of speakers, relevant policies and 
> projects, sources, ISO codes and geographic coordinates. This free 
> Internet-based version of the Atlas for the first time permits wide 
> accessibility and allows for interactivity and timely updating of 
> information, based on feedback provided by users.
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John F. Schwaller
President
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