Lantern
The Living Ark

Every light is a language.

Each language here is one a community is fighting to keep. Some are vulnerable; one has roughly ten speakers left. Lantern gives every one of them the same engine, and room for the other ~3,000 still waiting.

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Vulnerable

Māori

te reo Māori

The poster child for revival: from near-loss to kōhanga reo immersion nests and a Māori Language Act. Proof it can be done.

41 phrases seededOpen
Critically endangered

Cherokee

ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ (Tsalagi Gawonihisdi)

Sequoyah's syllabary made the Cherokee literate in a generation. Today fluent speakers are counted in the hundreds.

15 phrases seededOpen
Critically endangered

Hawaiian

ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi

Banned in schools for decades, now taught in Pūnana Leo immersion nests, a revival that helped inspire Māori kōhanga reo.

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Critically endangered

Ainu

アイヌ・イタㇰ (Aynu itak)

An isolate with no proven relatives. Each elder lost takes irreplaceable grammar, story, and song with them.

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Severely endangered

Manx

Gaelg

Its last native speaker died in 1974. A bunscoill immersion school has since raised a new generation of speakers.

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Severely endangered

Cornish

Kernewek

Functionally dormant by ~1800, reconstructed from texts in the 20th century, and now spoken at home again by some families.

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Vulnerable

Navajo

Diné bizaad

The Code Talkers' language. Still widely spoken, yet intergenerational transmission is thinning fast.

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Definitely endangered

Yiddish

ייִדיש

A thousand years of Ashkenazi life carried in one language, devastated in the 20th century, quietly persisting now.

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