UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
Interactive Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger ©UNESCO
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.
The latest edition of the Atlas (2009), made possible thanks to the support of the Government of Norway, 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.
The online edition 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.
Degrees of endangerment The present edition designates the degrees of endangerment a little differently than the previous editions. The new terminology is based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework that establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Degree of endangerment Intergenerational Language Transmission safe language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted
>> not included in the Atlas vulnerable most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) definitely endangered children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home severely endangered language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves critically endangered the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently extinct there are no speakers left
>> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s
The interactive online edition of the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is complementary to the print edition and may be cited as:
Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing. Online version: http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
Logo del 10.º aniversario de Biquipedia.
Biquipedia, la versión en aragonés de Wikipedia, celebró el 21 de julio de 2014 su décimo aniversario. Dicho proyecto, que hace un mes superó la barrera de los 30 000 artículos enciclopédicos, constituye la mayor obra del mundo en aragonés, una lengua romance que, si bien hace siglos fue ampliamente utilizada en todo el Reino de Aragón y en zonas del Reino de Valencia, hoy se encuentra en peligro de desaparecer. El aragonés es hablado actualmente por unas 11 000 personas en el planeta, muchas de ellas en edad avanzada.

Como han asegurado dos administradores de Biquipedia en una reciente entrevista para Wikimedia España, este proyecto resulta fundamental como recurso educativo, tanto para alumnos en el norte de Aragón, que lo utilizan para aprender empleando el aragonés en sus clases, como para gente de todo el mundo interesada en hablarlo. De hecho, Juanpabl, seudónimo de uno de los entrevistados, afirma:



Asimismo, Biquipedia destaca por su extensión y su actividad. Como explica Willtron, otro de los administradores entrevistados: