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Dying Words: Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us
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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,237

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Year of info

2009

Location and Context

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

524

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Year of info

2010

Location and Context

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Coordinates

41.9839,46.8127

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

<1,000

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Location description

Southern Daghestan, village of Archi, Charoda County

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Southern Daghestan, village of Archi, Charoda County

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Other languages used

Russian, Avar

Domains of other languages

Schools and wider communication

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,200

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

1,000

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

Data for the number of native speakers comes from Koryakov (2006). Data for the ethnic population comes from A. E. Kibrik (1990)

Year of info

2009

Location and Context

Countries

Russia;

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Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

>700

Domains of Use

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Ethnic Population

>700

Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

1993

Location and Context

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"The propagandizing of Russian and Avar as better means of communication has adversely affected the Archi language."

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Year of info

2005

Location and Context

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Coordinates

42.0,46.8333333333

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Threatened

Native Speakers Worldwide

1,000

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