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Encyclopedia > Xiri language

Xiri is a Khoisan language of South Africa, originally spoken by a small group of Coloureds. It is an endangered language, and may even be extinct.


See also: language, Africa


External link

  • The Ethnologue Report for Xiri (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=XII)

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List of endangered languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (280 words)
A list of endangered languages (with fewer than 1000 speakers or in rapid decline).
In order to judge if a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than the age distribution; there may be 500,000 speakers of the Breton over 50 years of age, but fewer than 2,000 under 25 years of age - it is likely Breton will die out in the next half-century.
On the other hand, while there are 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue, thus Ladin is not endangered in the 21st century.
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