Home›Languages›Status›LivingBrowse ByLivingStatus records how vital a language currently is, from thriving to endangered or extinct. Wikipedia notes Spanish is "the world's second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese," about as far from endangered as a language can be. This dimension separates languages still growing from those quietly disappearing.LivingComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)LivingFilter Results152 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllAfro-Asiatic (10)Altaic (1)Atlantic-Congo (13)Austroasiatic (2)Austronesian (6)Aymaran (1)Bali-Sasak-Sumbawa languages (1)Balto-Slavic (5)Bantu (5)Bengali-Assamese languages (1)Berber languages (1)Bisayan (3)Central Pacific languages (2)Common Turkic (1)Cushitic (2)Dravidian (4)East Baltic (1)East Barito languages (1)East Slavic (3)English-based Creole (1)Eskimo-Aleut (2)French-based Creole (1)Gbe (2)Germanic (9)Guarani languages (1)Hellenic (1)Igboid languages (1)Indo-Aryan (7)Indo-European (24)Indo-Iranian (11)Iroquoian (1)Japonic (1)Kartvelian (1)Khoisan (1)Kipchak (2)Koreanic (1)Kra-Dai (1)Macro-Somali languages (1)Malayo-Polynesian (11)Mande (1)Marquesic languages (1)Min Chinese (1)Mongolic (1)Na-Dene (1)Niger-Congo (2)Nilo-Saharan (1)Nilotic (2)North Germanic (1)Northern Luzon languages (1)Oghuz 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