An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol...
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list of lists of extinct languages. List of extinct languages of Africa List of extinct languages of Asia List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe...
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extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. There are 225 languages listed...
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This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant...
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Colima - extinct language once spoken on the Iscuandé River and Patia River, Nariño department, Colombia. (Unattested.) Pius - extinct language once spoken...
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language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer has any first-language or...
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endangered language. Welsh (Cymraeg) emerged in the 6th century from Brittonic, the common ancestor of Welsh, Breton, Cornish, and the extinct language known...
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Hattic, an unclassified language in Anatolia. extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly...
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billion second language speakers. Indo-European language family has 10 known branches or subfamilies, of which eight are living and two are extinct. Most of...
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parent language in Europe. Europe portal Language portal Lists of extinct languages List of endangered languages in Europe "Aequian - MultiTree". LINGUIST...
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Arawakan languages that are extinct and poorly documented. However, apart from transparent relationships that might constitute single languages, several...
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extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 73 languages listed...
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An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes...
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as Costa Rica, and Panama. The name is derived from the name of an extinct language called Chibcha or Muisca, once spoken by the people who lived on the...
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bàsàrə̀n dà jàlààbè̩), also known as Cèntûm, Centúúm or Cen Tuum, is an extinct language of northeastern Nigeria (Loojaa settlement in Balanga Local Government...
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currently exist and five others (today extinct) existed in different regions. The vernacular Indigenous American languages (native to the Argentine territory)...
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independently from its now extinct relatives, such as Yugh and Kott, it would have been classified as an isolate. Another explanation for language isolates is that...
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Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken in the Northern Isles (Orkney and Shetland) off the north coast of mainland Scotland and in...
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an extinct one. Those involved can include linguists, cultural or community groups, or governments. Some argue for a distinction between language revival...
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the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language". If no one can speak the language at all, it becomes an "extinct language". A dead...
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not clear which represents the ancestral form of the language. Some poorly known extinct languages, such as Gutian and Cacán, are simply unclassifiable...
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of languages List of countries and territories by official language World language Languages used on the Internet Extinct language Official languages of...
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series Extinct (album), a 2015 album by Moonspell Extinct (film), an animated film by David Silverman Extinct hereditary titles Extinct language Extinction...
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there. It was extinct in Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua and is nearly extinct in western El Salvador, but it has undergone a recent language revitalization...
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ǃGãǃne (ǃGãǃnge) is an extinct language or dialect of the ǃKwi family which was once spoken near Tsolo and in Umtata District in South Africa, south of...
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including by second-language speakers, when it becomes known as an extinct language. A related term is linguicide, the death of a language from natural or...
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Hurro-Urartian is an extinct language family of the Ancient Near East, comprising only two known languages: Hurrian and Urartian. It is often assumed...
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Languages in danger". www.unesco.org. "Badeshi: Only three people speak this 'extinct' language". 26 February 2018. Rahman, Tariq (1997). "Language and...
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dialect (extinct) Huḏayl dialect (extinct) Ṭayyiˀ dialect (extinct) Safaitic (extinct) Hismaic (extinct) Hasaitic (extinct) Nabataean Arabic (extinct) Dadanitic ...
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Tokhara, and later as Tokharistan. When texts in two extinct and previously unknown Indo-European languages were discovered in the Tarim Basin of China, during...
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