
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has gathered data on languages all around the world and determined their vulnerability to extinction. Their categories range from vulnerabel to extinct. Beringia has approximately fourteen critically endangered languages, according to this system.
Critically Endangered Languages
- Aleut (eastern) - 150 speakers as of 2000
- Aleut (western) - 5 speakers as of 1997
- Copper Island Aleut - 10 speakers as of 2002
- East Cape Yupik - 70 speakers as of 1998
- Forest (Kolyma) Yukaghir - 50 speakers as of 1987
- Holikachuk - 5 speakers as of 2000
- Ingalik - 14 speakers as of 2000
- Itelmen - 100 speakers as of 1991
- Koyukon - 150 speakers as of 2000
- Seward Peninsula Inupiaq - 2144 speakers as of 2000
- Tanacross - 50 speakers as of 2000
- Tlingit - 300 speakers as of 2000
- Tundra Yukaghir - 150 speakers as of 1987
- Upper Kuskokwim - 25 speakers as of 2000
You can find more information on UNESCO's website: UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger
Last updated: April 14, 2022