[red-indian]

I've found the lang attribute and :lang pseudo-class to be pretty useful in publishing for private tribal use documents in my (critically endangered) language. Unfortunately there isn't any standard way of distinguishing between the various scripts/orthographies, so we've extended the language names for that purpose.

Our work isn't listed on any of these pages about which indigenous languages are on the internet because we don't want it to be, these pages are for tribal citizen use only. So, there may be a lot more written languages in use somehow than the author believes. But who knows.

[mchaver]

Continuing on your line of thought, and being a bit pedantic, the title says missing from the internet, but it looks more like missing from websites.

There is a lot of internet interaction that happens privately/semi-privately in chat applications like Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, LINE, etc.

From my limited personal experience, communities who speak and are able to write in minority languages continue to do so in their communication via these apps even though they may have a small appearance on public websites. Of course, for communities that do no have a written form for their language or very few know it, then this is less likely the case.

[saagarjha]

Would you mind sharing what language this is?