UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, third edition

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The third edition of the Atlas listed roughly two and a half thousand languages as endangered to some degree, graded on a scale from vulnerable through severely and critically endangered to extinct, and made language endangerment legible as a global distribution rather than a set of local anecdotes. The exact count is not quoted here because the Atlas could not be retrieved in this session. Each loss removes evidence the comparative method depends on, and each death of a last relative creates a new isolate.

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