Maps of Armenian
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages (UNESCO)
The UNESCO Database of Endangered Languages
Map Creator:
LINGUIST List (Anthony Aristar)
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
Data Source: Mosely Christopher. 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. Paris, UNESCO Publishing, Online version. http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/ (29 November 2010)
Contact: llmap
linguistlist.org
Usage Notes/Copyright Status: Used by Permission
Date Created: 29 November 2010
Map Description:
UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger is a database intended to raise awareness about language endangerment and the need to safeguard the world’s linguistic diversity among policy-makers, speaker communities and the general public, and to be a tool to monitor the status of endangered languages and the trends in linguistic diversity at the global level.
Degrees of endangerment
The map designates the degrees of endangerment as based on UNESCO’s Language Vitality and Endangerment framework.
This establishes six degrees of vitality/endangerment based on nine factors. Of these factors, the most salient is that of intergenerational transmission.
| Degree of endangerment | Intergenerational Language Transmission | safe | language is spoken by all generations; intergenerational transmission is uninterrupted >> not included in the map |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain domains (e.g., home) |
| definitely endangered | children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home |
| severely endangered | language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among themselves |
| critically endangered | the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the language partially and infrequently |
| extinct | there are no speakers left >> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s |
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West Caucasus: Abkhazia - the language situation in 1989
Abkhaz Linguistic Situation in 1989
Map Creator:
Ljuba Veselinova, Geographic Information Systems in Linguistics (GISLI), Stockholm University
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 1989 of both the Abkhaz and Abaza languages (in green/blue) of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange); multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). In the Abkhaz language family family, further divisions within dialects here designated as subdialects It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 1989 of both the Abkhaz and Abaza languages (in green/blue) of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange); multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). In the Abkhaz language family family, further divisions within dialects here designated as subdialects It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).
West Caucasus: Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century
Abkhazia - the language situation in the early 21st century
Map Creator:
Ljuba Veselinova, Geographic Information Systems in Linguistics (GISLI), Stockholm University
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 2000 of the Abkhaz language of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange), as well as uninhabited regions left deserted after the War in Abkhazia that took place from 1992-1993; multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in 1989 map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
Source:
Коряков Ю. Б. Атлас кавказских языков / РАН. Ин-т языкознания. — Москва: Пилигрим, 2006. — 76 с.: карты.
Koryakov, Y.B. The Atlas of the Caucasian languages / Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN). Institute of Linguistics. — Moscow: Pilgrim, 2006. — 76c
Date Created: July 2010
Project Description:
This map depicts the linguistic situation in the year 2000 of the Abkhaz language of Georgia and surrounding languages in the region from the Kartvelian (purple) and Indo-European families (red/orange), as well as uninhabited regions left deserted after the War in Abkhazia that took place from 1992-1993; multilingual regions can be found in a separate layers. Map labels will appear by zooming in level from the default (zoom level of 1:433K). It should also be noted that populated places are only places indicated in the Atlas of the Caucasian languages and do not represent an exhaustive list of populated places for this region; these places will appear on this map two levels in from the default (zoom level of 1:216K). This map can be compared with the Abkhazia - the language situation in 1989 map.
Other resources related to this project:
Lingvarium Project
Note: Scanned or downloaded images have been geo-registered for compatibility with our project interface. Slight imperfections are an inevitable result of the registration process. View original image(s) to see the unaltered map(s).