Comment by internet_points
4 months ago
Finnish: "safe" – sounds right
South Estonian: "vulnerable" – sure, yeah
Karelian: "endangered" – seems correct
Swedish: also "endangered" – wat
Ghari (12k speakers): "safe" – :facepalm:
Are these really language-vulnerability ratings or did they just make a mapping from Trump's tariff rates?
The Ethnologue link in footnote 7 of the paper has utm_source=chatgpt.com at the end, so I suspect whoever was tasked with listing languages and determining their status thought this wasn't important enough to do it themselves and just had ChatGPT give them a list. FWIW, Ethnologue does say that Ghari is "Stable" https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gri/ Meanwhile Swedish is "Institutional," the highest possible level of vitality https://www.ethnologue.com/language/swe/
My new favourite mistake is Malayalam being highly endangered...