Arapaho Language School

We were told it was considered "dead" when there were no longer any children speaking it.

Pite Sami - there are less than 20 known (native) speakers in the world.

Yep, that is precisely it. :)

The main reason I don't really see it expanding is that within the Sámi community it is being taken over by other varities. There is no longer a tightly knit community that speaks it. Hell, I'm a native speaker of it and never lived in an area with any others aside from the family members that spoke it around me.

Combine that with a general movement to speak more Swedish, and the general requirement to learn English... and Pite has little, if any, reason to continue fighting for itself.

it's not being widely spoken in the community, though, outside gaeltacht areas, parts of the country where native Irish is spoken as a first language. People get hung up and embarrassed about it - plus the grammar is kind of tricky. It is a great language for poetry though - a lot of assonances and echoes. I find the indirectness has survived in our inability as a race and nation to talk real, something which I, who have a distinctly non-Irish sensibility, find irritating.

"most notably the "passive exonerative." ("Mistakes were made.") "

translated into Irish - "It failed on me" - maybe slightly more direct but not much!

I meant transliterated, sorry.