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A list of endangered languages (with fewer than 1000 speakers or with very fast decline).
In order to judge if a language is actually endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the distribution among age cohorts. There may be 500 000 mothertongue speakers of the Breton language over 50 years of age but fewer than 2 000 under 25 years of age - thus Breton almost for sure will die out in the next half century. On the other hand there are only 30 000 Ladin language speakers left, but almost all children still learn it as their mothertongue - thus Ladin in not endangered in the 21. century.
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