Adyghe

Hello,

for years Adyghe has been discussed as an endangered language that, although used in TV, print media, and ocassionally online has seen rapid decline and is usually not transmitted to children even in villages. I propose adding the Egids scale of '7, Shifting'. The legal provincial status of the language says nothing of its actual use. This or next year there will be new research casting more light onto the current situation, underlining my evaluation.

Some sources:

Adyghe features the UNESCO list of endangered languages (the original PDF is not accessible anymore, though) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adyghe_language#UNESCO_2009_map_of_endange...

Bridges, O. (1992) 'Language Choice and Language Use in Two Bilingual Adyge Russian Communities', GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan), 1992(101), pp. 84–106. Lazarev, V. and Pravikova, L. (2005) 'The North Caucasus Bilingualism and Language Identity', in Cohen, J., McAlister, K.T., Rolstad, K., & MacSwan, J. (eds.) ISB4: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Bilingualism. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press, pp. 1309–1327. Can David Crystal’s 6 Point Survival Strategy Be Applied to the Circassian Language? Available at: http://www.circassianworld.com/circassians/language/1553-can-david-crystals-6-point (Accessed: 22 May 2018).

-my presence there