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This is a list of extinct languages of Africa , languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 73 languages listed.
...as well as by the evidence for a spoken Romance variety which developed locally out of Latin and persisted, in rural areas of Tunisia, as late as the last two decades of the 15th century
Became extinct between 1920 and 1940.
Reported in 1999 to still be spoken in the central Massai Steppe.
The last fluent speaker shifted to Hausa [hau] by 1987.
The last speakers probably survived into the 1960s
Last known speakers survived into the late 1980s
Last speakers survived into the 1970s
Coptic is the name of the final stage of the ancient Egyptian language, spoken and written from the fourth century AD until perhaps sometime in the seventeenth century.
Probably became extinct in the latter half of the 20th century.
No known L1 speakers. Last fluent speaker, Kaayo, died in 1999 (2012 M. Tosco).
Until c. 1800 AD.
Following the Roman invasion of Egypt in 30 BC the use of hieroglyphics began to die out with the last known writing in the fifth century AD.
Gafat was a Semitic language spoken in the region of the Blue Nile, in western Ethiopia. At present, the language disappeared completely in favour of Amharic. Its study is based mainly on a translation of the Song of Songs made from Amharic into Gafat in 1769-72 at the request of James Bruce and on the ample documentation collected in 1947 by W. Leslau from four native speakers.
Last known speaker survived into the early 1980s.
The now-dead language Gbin belonged to the South branch of the Mande linguistic family; as recently as one hundred years ago Gbin speakers lived in the city of Bondoukou and its surroundings.
...Ge'ez or Ethiopic. It ceased to be a spoken tongue in the fourteenth century A.D.
Extinct in the 16th century.
Extinct in 1975.
Probably became extinct in the early 20th century.
On 4 November 1995, Kasabe existed; on 5 November, it did not.
J. C. Winter (1981) says it is extinct. There were 3 speakers in 1971 who used it regularly (E. O. J. Westphal).
The last speakers probably died in the 1980s
Even towards the end of the Mamluk period, during the reign of the last sultan al-Ghawri (1501-1516), the Mamluk, called Asanbay min Sudun, copied the religious Hanbali tract of Abu al-Layth in Kypchak language for the royal library.
200 BC - 4th century AD.
The last speaker survived into the 1940s.
Extinct c 1400 AD..
There was 1 speaker in 1976.
Use began to diminish in the 1950s.
The last speaker probably died by the 1960s
C. Ehret was reported to be working with the last speaker (M. L. Bender 1976:280). Confirmed by R. Kiessling (1999).
c. 200 BC.
The earliest dated Palmyrene inscription is from the year 44 BC and the latest discovery has been dated to the year 274 AD.
1st Millennium BC - 600 AD.
100 BC - 600 AD.
status extinct since 1990
The last speaker died in the 1870s (Traill 2002).
The last speaker probably died in the mid 1980s.
No known L1 speakers. The last known proficient speaker died in January 2014 (Norton and Alaki 2015).
5th century AD.
The last speakers survived into the 1910s (Traill 1995).
In 1975 I interviewed Jopi Mabinda, the last ǁXegwi speaker. He was able to reproduce perfectly the linguistic material he had given to Lanham and Hallowes and he was fluent in Zulu. He told me he was the only speaker of the language and that he spoke it to his sister and brother-in-law, who only had a passive knowledge of it. He was murdered at Lothair, in the eastern Transvaal, in 1988
