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 If a minority language is mentioned under Part III of the Charter it enjoys "additional" protection: the host country of this language has committed itself to additional measures to protect this language. The country has to apply a minimum of 35 (sub-)paragraphs from Part III, including at least three (3) from Article 8 on Education.
+==== Endangered Languages Project ====
+The Endangered Languages Project is a knowledge-sharing platform for language documentation, preservation and education. It gives information on endangered languages and provides resources, as well as the opportunity for individulas to add resources. In their [[http://www.endangeredlanguages.com/#/4/36.800/-92.461/0/100000/0/low/high/dormant/awakening/unknown|database]] of languages they also scale the language vitality: at risk, endangered, severely endangered, dormant, awakening, or vitally unknown.
+==== Ethnologue =====
+Ethnologue is a [[https://www.ethnologue.com/|database]] with over 7000 languages, with information on: language identifcation, user population, location, language status (EGIDS level), classification, dialects, typology, language use, language development, and language resources. Since October 2019, Ethnologue has installed a strict paywall((Matacic, C. //World’s largest linguistics database is getting too expensive for some researchers.// (2020, February 10). Science. Retrieved February 25, 2020, from [[https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/world-s-largest-linguistics-database-getting-too-expensive-some-researchers]].)).
+==== Glottolog ====
+Glottolog is a the [[https://glottolog.org/|database]] for languages with a unique identifier, the Glottocode, to represent names of languages. On the website, the Agglomerated Endangerment Scale (AES) of a language is also given (not endangered,threatened, shifting, moribund, nearly extinct, or extinct).
 ==== International Labour Organization ====
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 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is an international organisation with [[https://en.unesco.org/countries|193 member states and 11 associate members]]. It aims "to build peace through international cooperation in Education, the Sciences and Culture"((UNESCO. //UNESCO in Brief: Mission and Mandate.// (n.d.). Retrieved from [[https://en.unesco.org/about-us/introducing-unesco]].)). Since 2018, the USA is no longer a member of UNESCO.
+==== UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger ====
+The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger is a free [[http://www.unesco.org/languages-atlas/index.php|online atlas]] with information on lesser used languages. The Atlas provides the name, number of speakers, degree of endangerement (vulnerable, definitely endangered, severely endangered, critically endangered, or extinct) and the state(s) where the language is spoken plus ISO codes and geographic coordinates. When possible, it also lists policies, projects and sources.
 ==== United Nations====