Report Title

World’s Languages in Danger

Submitted to:

Ms. Kamala Omarova

Report Prepared by:

Ali Hamzazade

Date: 13.04.2020

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 Analysis and Results:
Descriptive Data Analysis:
Country: France
Number of endangered languages:26
Degree of endangerment:

most children speak the language, but it may be restricted to certain

vulnerable
domains (e.g., home)
definitely
children no longer learn the language as mother tongue in the home
endangered
language is spoken by grandparents and older generations; while the parent
severely
generation may understand it, they do not speak it to children or among
endangered
themselves
critically the youngest speakers are grandparents and older, and they speak the
endangered language partially and infrequently
there are no speakers left
extinct
>> included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s

Numbers and names of each vitality:

Vulnerable- 5 (West Flemish , Moselle Franconian , Rhenish Franconian , Alemannic , Basque)
Definitely endangered- 8 (Walloon , Yiddish , Gascon , Corsican , Alpine Provençal ,
Francoprovençal , Ligurian, Romania)
Severely Endangered- 13 (Norman , Gallo , Limousin , Lorrain , Burgundian and others)
Critically Endangered-0
Extinct-0
1) Norman - It is an Oil language, a continuum of language and dialects spoken in
northern France that includes Norman, Picard and Poitevin.
2) Wallon - is a Romance language that is spoken in much of Wallonia in Belgium, in some
villages of northern France and in the northeast part of Wisconsin, US until the mid 20th century
and in some parts of Canada.
3) Lorrain - This article is about the Romance dialect spoken in the Lorraine region of France.
For the Germanic dialect spoken in northern Lorraine, see Lorraine Franconian.
4) Romania -  is a Balkan Romance language spoken by approximately 24–26 million
people as a native language, primarily in Romania and Moldova, and by another 4 million
people as a second language.
5) Alemannic - is a group of dialects of the Upper German branch of the Germanic language
family. The name derives from the ancient Germanic tribe known as the Alemanni.

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6) West Flemish - is a Germanic language closely related to Dutch, and sometimes
considered a dialect of Dutch, that is spoken in western Belgium and adjoining parts of
the Netherlands and France.
7) Basque - is a language spoken in the Basque Country, a region that straddles the
westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France.
8) Ligurian - is a Gallo-Italic language spoken in Liguria in Northern Italy, parts of the
Mediterranean coastal zone of France, Monaco and in the villages of Carloforte and Calasetta in
Sardinia. It is part of the Gallo-Italic and Western Romance dialect continuum.
9) Gallo -  is a Romance language spoken in parts of Brittany and Normandy in the northwest
of France by about 28,000 people.
10) Yiddish - is a High-German-derived language historically spoken by the Ashkenazi Jews. 

Abstract of my report:
Introduction: This report summarizes all of the statistical modelling of France’s Languages in
Danger. The purpose of this report is to know endangered languages of France.
Protocol: In order to collect reliable data for this study, source is restricted with the official
website of UNESCO Atlas of the World Languages in Danger. According to the results taken
from the web address there are 26 languages in danger.
Conclusion: Research show that they prefer their native language.

Reference(s): http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php?hl=en&page=atlasmap