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--- manual:colour_codes [2025/06/18 09:16] – [Colour code table] ydwine
+++ manual:colour_codes [2025/06/23 10:38] (current) – [Note on the wiki's use on colour codes] ydwine
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 |  potentially vulnerable |   {{:endangerment:cyan.png?nolink|potentially vulnerable}}  |  -  |  -  |  at risk  |  {{:endangerment:cyan.png?nolink|at risk}}  |  -  |  -  |
 |  vulnerable  |  {{:endangerment:blue.png?nolink|vulnerable}}  |  stable  |  {{:endangerment:blue.png?nolink|stable}}  |  vulnerable  |  {{:endangerment:blue.png?nolink|vulnerable}}  |  -  |  -  |
-|  -  |  -  |  -  |  -  |  threatened  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|threatened}}  |  threatened  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|threatened}}  |
+|  endangered/unsafe  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|endangered/unsafe}}  |  -  |  -  |  threatened  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|threatened}}  |  threatened  |  {{:endangerment:yellow.png?nolink|threatened}}  |
 |  definitely endangered  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|definitely endangered}}  |  -  |  -  |  endangered  |   {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|endangered}}    |   shifting  |  {{:endangerment:orange.png?nolink|shifting}}  |
 | severely endangered  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|severely endangered}}  | endangered  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|endangered}}  |   severely endangered  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|severely endangered}}  |  moribund  |  {{:endangerment:red.png?nolink|moribund}}  |
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 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.
-In 2024, the colour codes were updated on the Wiki, as changes were made in the scales of Ethnologue.
+In 2024, the colour codes were updated on the Wiki, as changes were made in the scales of the public section of Ethnologue.