# Endangered Languages

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Category: Languages
Slides: 31
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:23.815Z
Tags: languages, endangered

## Summary

A language dies, on average, every two weeks. Within a century, between 50 and 90 percent of human linguistic diversity will be gone. The catastrophe is well-documented and largely unstoppable. Key sections include: End ang ered.; Opening The half that vanishes.; Chapter I What endangerment means.; Chapter II Krauss's alarm.; Chapter III How many, where.; Chapter IV Eyak: the last speaker.; Chapter V How a language dies.; Chapter VI Hebrew: the impossible case.; Chapter VII Hawaiian: from 2,000 to 18,000.; Chapter VIII Welsh: held at half a million..

## Slide Outline

1. End ang ered.
2. Opening The half that vanishes.
3. Chapter I What endangerment means.
4. Chapter II Krauss's alarm.
5. Chapter III How many, where.
6. Chapter IV Eyak: the last speaker.
7. Chapter V How a language dies.
8. Chapter VI Hebrew: the impossible case.
9. Chapter VII Hawaiian: from 2,000 to 18,000.
10. Chapter VIII Welsh: held at half a million.
11. Chapter IX Māori: kōhanga reo and the language nest.
12. Chapter X Documentary linguistics.
13. Chapter XI The fieldworker's toolkit.
14. Chapter XII What is in a small language.
15. Chapter XIII Australia: the worst case.
16. Chapter XIV The Americas.
17. Chapter XV Pacific and Asia.
18. Chapter XVI Africa: more stable than expected.
19. Chapter XVII Europe's minorities.
20. Chapter XVIII Sleeping languages and reawakening.
21. Chapter XIX Why save languages.
22. Chapter XX What revitalisation actually does.
23. Chapter XXI Technology, for and against.
24. Chapter XXII The people who do this.
25. Chapter XXIII The shelf.
26. Chapter XXIV Watch and read.
27. Chapter XXV A working vocabulary.
28. Chapter XXVI What actually works.
29. Chapter XXVII The next century.
30. Chapter XXVIII The case.
31. The end of the deck.

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