manual:color_codes
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The colour codes correspond with descriptions of language vitality given by three websites: the website of Unesco's Atlas for languages in danger, the online Ethnologue, and the Endangered Languages website. Each website uses its own, unrelated, system to rate a language's vitality, using terms such as “vulnerable”, “endangered”, “critically endangered”, etc. Mercator's wiki chooses to represent these vitality descriptions with colour codes, so that the viewer can quickly get an idea of the language's vitality.
To fill out the colour codes for a specific language:
- look up the vitality ratings of a language on the three websites;
- look up these ratings in the table below;
- fill out the vitality table on the language's fact sheet with the three colour codes that corresponds to the descriptions mentioned on the three websites.
Please see the table below
| UNESCO | Ethnologue's EGIDS | Endangered language's LEI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| safe |  | 0: International | safe | |||
| 1: National | ||||||
| 2: Provincial | ||||||
| 3: Wider Communication | ||||||
| 4: Educational | ||||||
| 5: Developing | ||||||
| 6a: Vigorous | At risk | |||||
| vulnerable | | 6b: Threatened | vulnerable | |||
| definitively endangered | 7: in trouble | threatened | ||||
| severely endangered | 8a: Moribund | endangered | ||||
| 8b: dying | severely endangered | |||||
| critically endangered | critically endangered | |||||
| extinct | Extinct | Extinct | ||||
| dormant | ||||||
| awakening |
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