An endangered language is a language that is likely to becone extinct in the near future as its speakers die out or shift to other languages (UNESCO).
•These are the indicators of language endangerment:
-The number of living speakers
-The mean age of fluent speakers
-The percentage of the youngest generation acquiring the language
As a result, out of around 6000 languages of the world, at least 2571 are endangered (UNESCO).
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