Free Resources on Endangered Languages Archives

Miriwoong: One of Australia’s Languages Still Holding On

TL;DR: Miriwoong is an Aboriginal language from the East Kimberley. Still spoken but vulnerable. It carries deep cultural and land-based

TL;DR: Udi isn’t just endangered. It’s hanging on. Spoken by a small Caucasus community, it’s a rare link to an

TL;DR: Turoyo is a culturally rich Aramaic language, but it’s under pressure as migration and dominant languages push it out

TL;DR: Judeo-Tat is an endangered Iranian Jewish language shaped by Persian, Hebrew, and life in the Caucasus, once central to

TL;DR: Votic is one of Europe’s most endangered languages, now spoken by only a handful of elderly speakers after decades

Once spoken along the windswept shores of the Baltic Sea. Livonian is one of Europe’s quietest linguistic miracles. A language

In 1974, the Manx language was declared dead. When Ned Maddrell, the last known native speaker, died, the language was

Ume Sámi is one of Europe’s quietest language survival stories. For much of the 20th century, it was assumed to

TL;DR: Once declared extinct, the Eyak language is finding its voice again. Through documentation, technology, and community effort. It’s not

TL;DR: Xinca is a distinct Indigenous language and people of southeastern Guatemala who were wrongly pushed out of the national