Home›Languages›Language Kind›SafeBrowse BySafeLanguage kind sorts languages by how vital they are, on a scale from Safe through Vulnerable, Definitely Endangered, Severely Endangered and Critically Endangered to Extinct. This dimension groups languages that share the same vitality status, so a reader can see which languages are still passed to children and which have lost their last speakers.SafeComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)SafeFilter Results110 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllAfro-Asiatic (8)Altaic (1)Atlantic-Congo (12)Austroasiatic (2)Austronesian (4)Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages (1)Balto-Slavic (2)Bantu (6)Bengali-Assamese languages (1)Berber languages (1)Bisayan (3)Central Pacific languages (2)Cushitic (1)Dravidian (4)East Slavic (1)English-based Creole (1)French-based Creole (1)Gbe (2)Germanic (7)Hellenic (1)Igboid languages (1)Indo-Aryan (5)Indo-European (18)Indo-Iranian (7)Japonic (1)Kartvelian (1)Kipchak (2)Koreanic (1)Kra-Dai (1)Macro-Somali languages (1)Malayo-Polynesian (8)Mande (1)Min Chinese (1)Na-Dene (1)Niger-Congo (2)Nilo-Saharan (1)Nilotic (1)Northern Luzon languages (1)Oghuz (1)Potou-Tano languages (1)Senegambian languages (1)Sinitic (2)Sino-Tibetan (6)Slavic (5)South Slavic (4)Southern Bantu languages (4)Tai (1)Tongic languages (1)Trans-New Guinea (1)Turkic (5)Uralic (3)West Slavic (2)Western Iranian (1)RegionAllAndhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka (1)Benin, Nigeria, Togo (1)Botswana, South Africa (1)Burundi (1)Central Asia (2)Central Asia (Turkestan) (1)China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia (1)Eastern India (1)Eastern Visayas (Philippines) (1)Egypt (1)Enga Province, Papua New Guinea (1)Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia (1)Ethiopia (1)Fiji (1)Finland (1)Ghana (1)Ghana and Togo (West Africa) (1)Guangdong, Guangxi, western Hainan, Hong Kong, and Macau (1)Haiti (1)Horn of Africa (1)Iceland (1)India (1)Indonesia (1)Iran (1)Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry, India (1)Lesotho, South Africa (1)Lithuania (1)Malawi, eastern Zambia, Mozambique (1)Maldives and Minicoy Island (Lakshadweep, India) (1)Mali (1)Malta (1)Nepal (1)Northern Europe (1)Norway (1)Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda (1)Samoa, American 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