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Re:Google: Introducing The Endangered Languages Project by klez on Friday June 22, 2012 @08:52AM (#4146549)
They missed Venetan[1].

It's considered vulnerable by UNESCO[2], but it's not even recognized as a language by the Italian governement (just by the Venetan region).

As almost all pre-unitarian Italic languages, it's not being thought, degraded as 'dialect' and is being discouraged as an idiom for ignorants.

There's a very ample discussion to make about these issues here in Italy. If anyone wants to know more, I'll try to answer. Here or in a more appropriate venue.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetan_language

[2]http://www.unesco.org/culture/languages-atlas/en/atlasmap/la...

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Re:Google: Introducing The Endangered Languages Project by falling on Friday June 22, 2012 @11:59AM (#4147316)
That is not entirely true. However, I think the issue with defending the language is that its more fervent supporters are using it as a confrontational political leverage instead of just plain culture.
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