What is an endangered language?

Language endangerment, or the threat of impending language loss, is loss that is not something that can be defined as a black or white. Instead there are different stages which we can look at in order to see what the current status of a language is. Renowned sociolinguist Joshua Fishman wrote an outline for 8 stages which he considered to be the eight different stages of endangerment in which a language could fall.
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