manual:colour_codes
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Filling out the colour code table
To fill out the colour codes for a specific language:
- look up a language's vitality rating on these three websites (if availabe):
- look up ratings given by each database and match them in the table below to find out to what colour codes they correspond;
- fill in the vitality table with the corresponding colour codes, by adding images to the table. The colour code images can be inserted using the toolbar. The colour code images are located in the Media manager, in the folder “endangerment”.
Colour code table
| UNESCO | Ethnologue's EGIDS | Endangered language's LEI | Glottolog's AES | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| safe |  | 0: International |  | safe | | not endangered | |
| 1: National | | ||||||
| 2: Provincial | | ||||||
| 3: Wider Communication | | ||||||
| 4: Educational | | ||||||
| 5: Developing |  | ||||||
| 6a: Vigorous |  | At risk | | ||||
| vulnerable |  | 6b: Threatened | | vulnerable | | threatened | |
| definitively endangered | | 7: in trouble | | threatened |  | shifting | |
| severely endangered | | 8a: Moribund | | endangered |  | ||
| 8b: dying | | severely endangered | | moribund | |
||
| critically endangered | | 9 | | critically endangered | | nearly extinct | |
| Extinct |  | Extinct | | Dormant | | extinct | |
| awakening |  |
Note on the wiki's use on colour codes
The colour codes correspond with descriptions of language vitality given by four websites: the website of Unesco's Atlas for languages in danger, the online Ethnologue, the Endangered Languages website, and Glottolog.
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.
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