List of endangered languages in Europe


An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. A language may be endangered in one area but show signs of revitalisation in another, as with the Irish language.

Levels of language endangerment

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization defines five levels of language endangerment between "safe" and "extinct":
The list below includes the findings from the third edition of Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger, as well as the online edition of that publication, both published by UNESCO.

List of languages


[|Albania] • [|Armenia] • [|Azerbaijan] • [|Belarus] • [|Belgium] • [|Bosnia and Herzegovina] • [|Bulgaria] • [|Croatia] • [|Cyprus] • [|Czech Republic] • [|Denmark] • [|Estonia] • [|Finland] • [|France] • [|Georgia] • [|Germany] • [|Greece] • [|Hungary] • [|Ireland] • [|Italy] • [|Kazakhstan] • [|Latvia] • [|Liechtenstein] • [|Lithuania] • [|Luxembourg] • [|Moldova] • [|Monaco] • [|Montenegro] • [|Netherlands] • [|North Macedonia] • [|Norway] • [|Poland] • [|Portugal] • [|Romania] • [|Russia] • [|San Marino] • [|Serbia] • [|Slovakia] • [|Slovenia] • [|Spain] • [|Sweden] • [|Switzerland] • [|Turkey] • [|Ukraine] • [|United Kingdom]