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The goal of this paper is to examine the current language situations from a typological point of view. Especially, the main focus goes on the better understanding of endangered languages through the revitalizing efforts. This paper consist of two parts. At first, we are going to look over the general understanding of endangered languages dealing with the following: Why languages disappear? For this, reviewing previous studies, it is observed that what factors have an impact on language loss and language vitality in terms of endangered status. Second of all, we try to get the better understanding of endangered languages to probe some cases of revitalized endangered languages. Through the observation of several revitalizing cases, we can say that language diversity is essential to the human heritage.