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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 extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum.
Date | Language or dialect | Language family | Region | Notes |
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20th-21st century (?) | Ayabadhu | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | [80] |
20th-21st century (?) | Aghu Tharnggala | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | [80] |
20th-21st century (?) | Adithinngithigh | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | |
20th-21st century (?) | Arritinngithigh | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | |
20th-21st century (?) | Gurnai | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | now being revived [80] |
20th-21st century | Southern Kayapó | Macro-Jê | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Hypothesized to be the ancestor of Panará. |
late 20th century (?) | Nganyaywana | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | |
late 20th century (?) | Ngamini | Pama-Nyungan | South Australia | |
late 20th century (?) | Nila | Austronesian | Nila Island, Indonesia | Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Nila [81] |
late 20th century (?) | Serua | Austronesian | Mount Serua, Indonesia | Speakers were relocated to Seram due to volcanic activity on Serua [81] |
late 20th century | Newfoundland Irish | Indo-European | Newfoundland, Canada | [82] |
late 20th century | Soyot | Turkic | Buryatia, Khövsgöl Province | Partly revitalized |
late 20th century | Saraveca | Arawakan | Eastern lowlands Bolivia | |
From 1980 to 2000 | Tepecano | Uto-Aztecan | Central Mexico | Last known speaker Lino de la Rosa was alive in 1980 |
c. 2000 | Mesmes | Afroasiatic | Ethiopia | with the death of Abegaz [83] [84] |
c. 2000 | Kamarian | Austronesian | west Seram Island, Indonesia | |
2000 | Sowa | Austronesian | Pentecost Island, Vanuatu | with the death of Maurice Tabi [85] |
late 1990s | Munichi | unclassified | Loreto Region, Peru | with the death of Victoria Huancho Icahuate |
1999 | Nyulnyul | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | with the death of Carmel Charles [86] |
by 1999 | Ineseño | Chumashan | California, United States | [87] |
1998 | Yola | Indo-European | County Wexford, Ireland | |
1998 | Mlahsô | Afroasiatic | Syria; Turkey | with the death of Ibrahim Hanna [88] |
by 1998 | Skepi Creole Dutch | Dutch-based creole | Guyana | [89] |
after or in 1997 | Aribwatsa | Lower Markham languages | Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea | Exact date of extinction is unknown although it's believed to be in 2000. Most descendants have switched to the Bukawa language. |
1997-98 | Ngarnka | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | |
January 1997 | Sireniki Yupik | Eskimo–Aleut | Chukotka Peninsula, Russia | with the death of Valentina Wye [90] |
1997 | Guazacapán | Xincan | Santa Rosa, Guatemala | |
1997 | Jumaytepeque | Xincan | By Volcán Jumaytepeque, Guatemala | |
ca. 1996 (?) | Malaryan | Dravidian | Kerala and Tamil Nadu, India | [91] |
16 December 1996 | Iowa-Oto | Siouan | Oklahoma and Kansas, United States | with the death of Truman Washington Dailey [92] |
1996 | Chiquimulilla | Xincan | Chiquimulilla, Guatemala | The last semi-speaker Julian de la Cruz died in 1996. |
by 1996 | Katabaga | Austronesian | Philippines | [93] |
by 1996 | Palumata | Austronesian? | Maluku, Indonesia | [94] |
before 1996 | Seru | Austronesian | Sarawak, Malaysia | [95] |
5 November 1995 | Kasabe | Niger–Congo | Cameroon | with the death of Bogon [96] |
6 August 1995 | Martuthunira | Pama-Nyungan | Western Australia | with the death of Algy Paterson [97] |
8 January 1995 | Northern Pomo | Pomoan (Hokan?) | California, United States | with the death of Edna Campbell Guerrero |
16 May 1994 | Luiseño language | Uto-Aztecan | Southern California | with the death of Villiana Calac Hyde. A revitalization process is happening. |
30 April 1994 | Sakhalin Ainu | Ainu languages | Japan | with the death of Take Asai [98] |
13 July 1993 | Eastern Abnaki | Algic | Maine, United States | with the death of Madeline Shay [99] [100] |
1993 | Andoa | Zaparoan | Peru | [101] |
7 October 1992 | Ubykh | Northwest Caucasian | Balıkesir Province, Turkey | with the death of Tevfik Esenç [102] |
23 February 1991 | Roncalese (Erronkariko) dialect | Basque (isolate) | Spain | with the death of Fidela Bernat [103] |
1991 | Pánobo | Panoan | Peru | [104] |
1991 | Ullatan | Dravidian | India | [105] |
30 July 1990 | Wappo | Yuki–Wappo | California, United States | with the death of Laura Fish Somersal [106] |
1990 | Shasta | Shastan | California, United States | |
Early 1990’s | Hermit | Austronesian | Manus Province, Papua New Guinea | It has been mostly replaced by Seimat. |
ca. 1990s | Inku | Indo-European | Afghanistan | [107] |
ca. 1990s | Lumaete dialect of Kayeli | Austronesian | central Maluku, Indonesia | [108] |
ca. 1990s | Taman variety of Sak | Sino-Tibetan | Myanmar | [109] |
ca. 1990s | Unggumi | Worrorra | Australia | with the death of Morndi Munro [110] |
1990s? | Berti | Saharan | Dafur and Kordofan, Sudan | |
20 September 1989 | Kamas | Uralic | Sayan Mountains, Soviet Union | with the death of Klavdiya Plotnikova |
March 1989 | Leliali dialect of Kayeli | Austronesian | central Maluku, Indonesia | [108] [111] |
ca. 1989 | Hukumina | Austronesian | Maluku, Indonesia | [112] |
1989 | Miami-Illinois | Algic | along the Mississippi River, United States | |
1989 | Kungarakany | Gunwinyguan | Northern Territory, Australia | with the death of Madeline England [111] [113] |
16 September 1988 | Atsugewi | Palaihnihan | California, United States | with the death of Medie Webster [114] |
1988 | ǁXegwi | Tuu | South Africa | with the death of Jopi Mabinda [115] |
ca. 1987 | Bidyara | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | [116] |
ca. 1987 | Laua | Trans-New Guinea | Papua New Guinea | |
4 February 1987 | Cupeño | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | with the death of Roscinda Nolasquez [117] |
1987 | Dyangadi | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [118] |
1987 | Negerhollands | Dutch-based creole | U.S. Virgin Islands | with the death of Alice Stevens |
by 1987 | Basa-Gumna | Niger-Congo | Niger State/Plateau State, Nigeria | [119] |
by 1987 | Yugambal | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | [120] |
ca. 1986 | Bikya | Niger-Congo | Cameroon | |
ca. 1986 | Bishuo | Niger-Congo | Cameroon | |
April 1986 | Jiwarli dialect, Mantharta | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | with the death of Jack Butler [121] |
1986 | Mangala | Pama-Nyungan | Western Australia | [122] |
1986 | Volow | Austronesian | Vanuatu | with the death of Wanhan [123] |
late 1980s to early 1990s | Cahuarano | Zaparoan | Along the Nanay River in Peru. | |
18 March 1984 | Deeside dialect, Scottish Gaelic | Indo-European | Scotland | with the death of Jean Bain [124] |
1984 | Yavitero | Arawakan | Venezuela | [111] [125] |
February 1983 | Antrim Irish | Indo-European | Ireland | with the death of Séamus Bhriain Mac Amhlaig [126] [127] |
ca. 1983 | Yangman | Australian | Northern Territory, Australia | [128] |
June 1982 | Kansa | Siouan | Oklahoma, United States | with the death of Ralph Pepper |
1982 | Bala | Tungusic | Zhangguangcai Range | [129] |
1982 | Dagoman | Australian | Northern Territory, Australia | with the death of Martha Hart [130] |
by 1982 | Dyugun | Australian | Western Australia | [131] |
by 1982 | Kato | Na-Dene | California, United States | [132] |
after 1981 | Dirari | Pama-Nyungan | South Australia | [133] |
after 1981 | Dyaberdyaber | Pama-Nyungan | Western Australia | [134] [135] |
after 1981 | Erre | Australian | Northern Territory, Australia | [136] |
after 1981 | Umbugarla | Arnhem Land languages or Darwin Region languages | Northern Territory, Australia | with the death of Butcher Knight |
after 1981 | Yawarawarga | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland and South Australia | [137] |
ca. 1981 | Ternateño | Portuguese Creole | Maluku, Indonesia | [138] |
1 May 1981 | Pitta Pitta | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | with the deaths of Ivy Nardoo of Boulia [139] |
1981 | Nagarchal | Dravidian? | India | |
1981 | Warrungu | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | with the death of Alf Palmer [140] [141] |
by 1981 | Bina | Austronesian | Central Province (Papua New Guinea) | |
1980 | Twana | Salishan | Washington, United States | [111] [142] |
1980 | Yalarnnga | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | |
1980s AD | Alchuka | Tungusic | Heilongjiang | |
late 1970s - 1980s [135] | Flinders Island | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | last known speaker was Johnny Flinders [140] |
between 1971 and 1981 | Kwadi | Khoe | southwestern Angola | [143] |
1970s – 1980s | Chicomuceltec | Mayan | Mexico; Guatemala | |
22 February 1979 | Barranbinja | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | with the death of Emily Margaret Horneville |
3 November 1977 | Shuadit | Indo-European | southern France | with the death of Armand Lunel [111] [144] |
24 August 1977 | Ngawun | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | with the death of Cherry O'Keefe [145] |
13 July 1977 | Nooksack | Salishan | Washington, United States | with the death of Sindick Jimmy [111] |
ca. 1977 | Arran Gaelic | Indo-European | Isle of Arran | With the death of Donald Craig. [146] |
ca. 1977 | Nagumi | Niger-Congo | Cameroon | [147] |
by 1977 AD | Babuza | Austronesian | Taiwan | [148] |
by 1977 AD | Luilang | Austronesian | Banqiao District | [148] |
between 1976 and 1999 | Kw'adza | Afroasiatic | Tanzania | [149] |
after 1976 | Muskum | Afroasiatic | western Chad | [150] |
1975 | Yugh | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Soviet Union | [111] [151] |
before 1975 | Homa | Niger-Congo | southern Sudan | [152] |
27 December 1974 | Manx | Indo-European | Isle of Man, British islands | with the death of Ned Maddrell. Now being revived as a second language [153] |
28 May 1974 | Ona | Chon | Tierra del Fuego, Argentina | with the death of Ángela Loij [notes 4] |
1974 | Moksela | Austronesian | Maluku, Indonesia | [154] |
before 1974 | Cacaopera | Misumalpan | El Salvador | [155] |
after 1973 | Môa Remo | Panoan | Along the Môa River of Amazonas, Peru | A word list was created in 1973. |
By 1974 | Dicamay Agta | Austronesian | Luzon, Philippines | The Dicamay Agta were killed by Ilokano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974. |
9 October 1972 | Tillamook | Salishan | Oregon, United States | with the death of Minnie Scovell [111] |
5 February 1972 | Hanis | Coosan | Oregon, United States | with the death of Martha Harney Johnson [156] |
1972 | Mbabaram | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | with the death of Albert Bennett [157] |
1970s | Damin | Constructed | Mornington Island | |
after 1968 | Paratio | Xukuruan | Pesqueira, Pernambuco, Brazil | It was spoken by a few people in Pesqueira in 1968. Loukotka (1968) |
1968 | Welsh-Romani | Romani | Wales, United Kingdom | with the death of Manfri Wood [158] |
before 1968 | Sened | Afroasiatic | Tunisia | |
after 1965 | Barngarla | Pama-Nyungan | southern Australia | with the death of Moonie Davis [159] |
24 July 1965 | Barbareño | Chumashan | California, United States | with the death of Mary Yee [160] [notes 5] |
1965 | Wakawaka | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | [161] |
ca. 1964 | Aariya | spurious | India | [162] |
10 August 1963 | Galice | Na-Dene | Oregon, United States | with the death of Hoxie Simmons |
10 January 1963 | Upper Umpqua | Na-Dene | Oregon, United States | with the death of Wolverton Orton |
1963 | Jorá | Tupi | Bolivia | [111] |
after 1962 | Xukuru | Xukuruan | Pernambuco and Paraíba, Brazil | Known from a wordlist and sketch from Geraldo Lapenda (1962). |
1962 | Wiyot | Algic | California, United States | with the death of Delia Prince [163] |
after 1961 | Wyandot | Iroquoian | Oklahoma, United States; Quebec, Canada | |
after 1961 | Pankararú | unclassified | Pernambuco, Alagoas, Brazil | Only two people remembered the language in 1961. |
after 1961 | Xocó | unclassified | Sergipe, Alagoas, Brazil | Only a few people remembered the language in 1961 It is not clear if this is a single language. |
1961 | Northeastern Pomo | Pomoan(Hokan?) | California, United States | |
1960 | Oriel dialect, Irish | Indo-European | Ireland | with the death of Annie O'Hanlon [164] [165] |
1960 | Siuslaw | Isolate | Oregon, United States | with the death of Mary Barrett Elliott. Last speaker of Lower Umpqua dialect was Billy Dick [156] |
1960s | Cuitlatec | Isolate | Guerrero, Mexico | with the death of Juana Can. [166] |
1960s | Luren | Sino-Tibetan | Guizhou | |
1960s | Pirlatapa | Pama-Nyungan | South Australia | [167] |
1960s | Timor Pidgin | Portuguese creole | East Timor | [168] |
16 April 1959 | Catawba | Siouan | South Carolina, United States | with the death of Chief Sam Blue [169] |
22 September 1958 | Molala | Isolate | Oregon, United States | with the death of Fred Yelkes [156] |
1958 | Salinan | Isolate (Hokan?) | California, United States | |
1958 | Omurano | Zaparoan | Peru | [111] [170] |
25 March 1957 | Natchez | Isolate | Mississippi, United States | [171] with the death of Nancy Raven. [172] The Natchez people are attempting to revive this language. [173] |
1952-1956 | Aasáx | Afroasiatic | Tanzania | [174] |
after 1955 | Wotapuri-Katarqalai | Indo-European | Afghanistan | [175] |
after 1954 | Tây Bồi | French-based Pidgin | Vietnam | [176] [177] |
1954 | Central Kalapuya | Kalapuyan | Oregon, United States | with the death of John B. Hudson [156] |
1954 | Ifo | Austronesian | Erromanga Island, Vanuatu | with the death of James Nalig [178] |
1952 | Martha's Vineyard Sign Language | Sign language | Massachusetts, United States | with the death of Katie West |
1951 | Alsea dialect | Isolate | Oregon, United States | with the death of John Albert [156] |
ca. 1950 | Bohemian Romani | mixed language | Czechoslovakia, Central Europe | after World War II, due to extermination of most of its speakers in Nazi concentration camps. |
1950 | Kaniet | Austronesian | Manus Province, Papua New Guinea | [111] [179] |
ca. 1950s | Makuva | Trans–New Guinea? | East Timor | [52] |
ca. 1950s | Kilit | Indo-European | Nakhchivan | [180] |
ca. 1950s | Pijao | unclassified | Tolima Department, Colombia | [181] |
1950s | Kepkiriwát | Tupian | Rondônia, Brazil | |
mid-20th century | Ventureño | Chumashan | California, United States | |
mid-20th century | Kawishana | Arawakan | Brazil | presumably extinct |
mid-20th century | Basay | Austronesian | Taiwan | |
mid-20th century | Sidi | Niger-Congo | Kathiawar, India; also known as Habsi. | |
mid-20th century | Slovincian | Indo-European | Pomerania, Poland | |
mid-20th century | Southern Pame | Oto-Manguean | Southern Mexico | |
mid-20th century | Kipea | Macro-Gê | Eastern Brazil | |
mid-20th century | Dzubukua | Macro-Gê | Pernambuco, Brazil | |
mid-20th century | Tequiraca | Tequiraca–Canichana? | Loreto, Peru | |
around mid-20th century | Tubar | Uto-Aztecan | Northern Mexico | |
around mid-20th century? | Chico | Maiduan | Central California | |
after 1949 | Kunza | unclassified | Atacama Desert, Chile/Peru | |
after 1949 | Mikira | Cahuapanan | Loreto, Peru | A word list was made by Enrique Stanko Vráz in 1949. |
6 December 1948 | Tunica | Isolate | Louisiana, United States | with the death of Sesostrie Youchigant [182] |
after 1947 | Gafat | Afroasiatic | along the Abbay River, Ethiopia | [183] |
3 March 1940 | Pentlatch | Salishan | Vancouver Island, Canada | with the death of Joe Nimnim [111] |
28 January 1940 | Chitimacha | Isolate | Louisiana, United States | with the death of Delphine Ducloux [184] |
ca. 1940 | Eudeve | Uto-Aztecan | Sonora, Mexico | |
ca. 1940s | Chemakum | Chimakuan | Washington, United States | |
ca. 1940s | Ossory dialect of Irish | Indo-European | County Kilkenny, Ireland | |
ca. 1940s | Kitanemuk | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | with the deaths of Marcelino Rivera, Isabella Gonzales, and Refugia Duran |
ca. 1940s | Northern Manx | Indo-European | Isle of Man | [185] |
22 May 1939 | Rumsen | Utian | California, United States | with the death of Isabel Meadows [186] |
9 May 1939 | Miluk | Coosan | Oregon, United States | with the death of Annie Miner Peterson [187] |
by or after 1939 | Judaeo-Piedmontese | Indo-European | Northwestern Italy | |
16 January 1937 | Northern Kalapuya | Kalapuyan | Oregon, United States | with the death of Louis Kenoyer |
1937 | Yoncalla | Kalapuyan | Oregon, United States | with the death of Laura Blackery Albertson [188] |
1936 | Narungga | Pama-Nyungan | South Australia, Australia | [189] |
8 January 1935 | Biloxi | Siouan | Louisiana, United States | with the death of Emma Jackson [190] |
1934 | Juaneño | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | |
1934 | Puelche | Chon | Argentina | with the death of Trruúlmani |
1934 | Takelma | Isolate | Oregon, United States | with the death of Frances Johnson [191] |
1933 | Gabrielino | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | |
between 1931 and 1951 | Akar-Bale | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [192] |
between 1931 and 1951 | Aka-Kede | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [192] |
between 1931 and 1951 | A-Pucikwar | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [192] |
after 1931 | Tonkawa | Isolate | Oklahoma/Texas/New Mexico, United States | |
after 1931 | Jaquirana Remo | Panoan | Amazonas, Brazil | A word list was made in 1931. |
after 1931 | Tuxinawa | Panoan | Acre, Brazil | A word list was made in 1931. |
by 1931 | Aka-Bea | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [192] |
by 1931 | Oko-Juwoi | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [192] |
after 1930 | Sensi | Panoan | right bank of Ucayali River, Peru | A word list was created by Günter Tessmann in 1930. |
c. 1930 | Mattole | Na-Dene | California, United States | |
29 January 1930 | Mutsun | Utian | California, United States | with the death of Ascencion Solorsano |
c. 1930s | Cayuse | Isolate/unclassified | Oregon, United States | |
c. 1930s | Kathlamet | Chinookan | Washington/Oregon, United States | with the death of Charles Cultee [156] |
c. 1930s | Lower Chinook | Chinookan | Washington/Oregon, United States | |
c. 1930s | Mahican | Algic | New York, United States | |
c. 1930s | Clackamas dialect of Upper Chinook | Chinookan | Washington/Oregon, United States | |
c. 1930s | Kitsai | Caddoan | Oklahoma, United States | with the death of Kai Kai [193] |
c. 1930s | Tapachultec | Mixe–Zoque | Southern Mexico | |
before 1930s | Kwalhioqua | Na-Dene | Washington, United States | |
by 1930 | Opata | Uto-Aztecan | Northern Mexico | |
between 1920 and 1940 | Ajawa | Afroasiatic | Bauchi State, Nigeria | [194] |
25 December 1929 | Kaurna | Pama-Nyungan | South Australia | with the death of Ivaritji, [195] now being revived |
c. 1929 | Bear River | Na-Dene | California, US | |
1928 | Ottoman Turkish | Turkic | Turkey | Evolved into Turkish in 1928. |
after 1927 | Tarauacá Kashinawa | Panoan | Amazonas, Brazil | A word list was made in 1927. |
after 1927 | Blanco River Remo | Panoan | Loreto Province, Peru | A word list was made in 1927. |
after 1925 | Subtiaba | Oto-Manguean or Subtiaba-Tlapanec | Nicaragua | |
1925 AD | Vanji | Indo-European | Emirate of Bukhara | [196] |
January 1922 | Chimariko | Isolate | California, United States | with the death of Sally Noble [197] [198] |
after 1921 | Chagatai | Turkic | Central Asia including Turkmenistan | Chagtai is still studied in Uzbekistan and Turkey. [199] |
30 June 1921 | Tataviam | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | with the death of Juan José Fustero |
by 1921 | Aka-Kol | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | [200] |
After 1920 | Sinacantán | Xincan | Santa Rosa, Guatemala | A word list was created by Walther Lehmann in 1920. |
ca. 1920 | Mochica | Chimuan | northwest Peru | |
ca. 1920s | Fergana Kipchak | Turkic | Fergana Valley | [201] |
ca. 1920s | Chochenyo | Utian | California, United States | |
ca. 1920s | Island Carib | Cariban | Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea | An offshoot survives as Garifuna. |
around the 1920s | Otuke | Macro-Jê | Mato Grosso, Santa Cruz | |
by 1920 | Yupiltepeque | Xincan | Guatemala | [202] |
after 1917 | Pochutec | Uto-Aztecan | Oaxaca, Mexico | |
15 June 1917 | Obispeño | Chumashan | Southern California, United States | with the death of Rosario Cooper [203] |
25 March 1916 | Yahi | Isolate (Hokan?) | California, United States | with the death of Ishi [204] [notes 6] |
1915 | Yamhill dialect of Northern Kalapuya | Kalapuyan | Oregon, United States | |
1910s | ǀXam | Tuu | South Africa | |
after 1908 | Siraya | Austronesian | southwestern Taiwan | [205] |
18 July 1908 | Mohegan-Pequot | Algic | southern New England, United States | with the death of Fidelia Fielding [206] |
24 February 1905 | Tasmanian | unclassified | Tasmania, Australia | with the death of Fanny Cochrane Smith [207] [208] [notes 7] |
after 1906 | Arazaire | Panoan | Cusco Province, Peru | A word list was done in 1906. |
after 1904 | Atsawaka | Panoan | Puno Province, Peru | There were 20 speakers in 1904. |
after 1902 | Dyirringany | Pama–Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | |
between 1900 and 1920 | Chinese Kyakala | Tungusic | Northeastern China | [209] |
between 1900 and 1920 | Jangil | Ongan | Andaman Islands, India | [210] |
ca. 1900 | Henniker Sign Language | Village sign | New Hampshire, United States | |
ca. 1900 | Tongva language | Uto-Aztecan | Southern California, United States | A revitalization process is happening. |
ca. 1900 | Payagua language | Mataco–Guaicuru? | Alto Paraguay, Paraguay | |
ca. 1900 | Moran | Sino-Tibetan | Assam, India | [211] |
1900 | Wulguru | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | |
by 1900 | Classical Mandaic | Afroasiatic | Iran; Iraq | [212] |
by 1900 | Piro Pueblo | Tanoan | New Mexico, United States | |
1900s AD | Iazychie | Indo-European | Halychyna, Bukovina, Zakarpattia | [213] |
1900s AD | Judeo-Venetian | Indo-European | Venice | [214] |
1900s AD | Rotvælsk | Indo-European | Denmark | [215] |
early 20th century | Atakapa | Isolate | Louisiana/Texas, United States | |
early 20th century | Kamakã | Macro-Jê | Bahia, Brazil | |
early 20th century | Jersey Dutch | Dutch-based creole | New Jersey, United States | |
early 20th century | Kazukuru | Austronesian | New Georgia, Solomon Islands | |
early 20th century | Kyakhta Russian–Chinese Pidgin | Chinese/Russian-based contact language | ||
early 20th century | Chaná | Charruan | Uruguay | |
early 20th century | Marawán | Arawakan | Brazil | |
early 20th century | East Leinster dialect, Irish | Indo-European | Ireland | [216] |
early 20th century | Ingain | Macro-Jê | Santa Catarina, Brazil | |
beginning of the 20th century AD | Rangas | Sino-Tibetan | Uttarakhand | [217] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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19th-20th century | Yuri | Ticuna-Yuri | Along the Caquetá River. | |
late 19th century | Adai | Isolate | Louisiana, United States | |
late 19th century | Purí | Macro-Jê | southeastern Brazil | |
late 19th century | Coroado Purí | Macro-Jê | southeastern Brazil | |
late 19th century | Istrian Albanian | Albanian | Croatia | |
late 19th century | Shebaya | Arawakan | Trinidad | |
later 19th century (?) | Mbara | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | [218] |
May 1900 | Moriori | Austronesian | Chatham Island, New Zealand | with the death of Hirawanu Tapu. [219] |
ca. 1899 | Nawathinehena | Algic | Oklahoma and Wyoming, United States [220] | |
by 1899 | Ahom | Tai | India | |
by 1899 | Waling | Sino-Tibetan | Nepal | [221] |
10 June 1898 | Dalmatian | Indo-European | Croatia; Montenegro | with the death of Tuone Udaina. [222] [223] |
after 1894 | Tsetsaut | Na-Dene | British Columbia, Canada | |
after 1892 | Awabakal | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | |
after 1886 | Maritsauá | Tupian | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Word list was made in 1884 during the Shingú river expedition. |
after 1886 | Solteco Zapotec | Oto-Manguean | Oaxaca, Mexico | |
after 1886 | Comecrudo | Comecrudan | Mexico; Texas, United States | |
after 1886 | Cotoname | Isolate | Mexico; Texas, United States | |
after 1884 | Yaquina dialect | Isolate | Oregon, United States | |
after 1880 | Kenaboi | Unclassified (isolate?) | Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia | |
ca. 1880 | Auregnais | Indo-European | Alderney, United Kingdom | |
1877 | Aruá | Arauan | Brazil | |
after 1871 | Duit | Chibcha | Boyacá, Colombia | One fragment analysed by scholar Ezequiel Uricoechea in 1871. |
8 May 1876 | Bruny Island | Tasmanian | Tasmania, Australia | with the death of Truganini [notes 8] |
mid-1870s | Yola | Indo-European | Wexford, Ireland | [225] |
21 February 1871 | Tutelo | Siouan | Virginia, United States | with the death of Nikonha [226] [notes 9] |
1870 | Clatskanie | Na-Dene | Washington (state), United States | |
1870s-1890s AD | Yokohamese | Japanese based pidgin | Yokohama | [227] |
after 1867 | Andoquero | Witotoan | Colombia | [228] |
1864 | Xakriabá | Macro-Jê | Minas Gerais state, Brazil | |
1862 | Caquetio | Arawakan | Aruba | with the death of Nicolaas Pyclas [229] |
1858 | Karankawa | unclassified | Texas, United States | concurrent with the extermination of the tribe at the hands of Juan Cortina |
ca. 1857 | Woiwurrung | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | |
26 December 1856 | Nanticoke | Algic | Delaware and Maryland, United States | with the death of Lydia Clark [230] |
12 January 1855 | Wampanoag | Algic | Massachusetts, United States | Nantucket Wampanoag disappeared with the death of Dorcas Honorable [231] |
after 1853 | Samaritan | Afroasiatic | West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestinian territories | Still used as a liturgical language [232] |
19 October 1853 | Nicoleño | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | with the death of Juana Maria [233] |
after 1851 | Wainumá-Mariaté | Arawakan | Amazonas, Colombia | A word list was collected by Alfred Russel Wallace in 1851. |
after 1850 | Hibito | Hibito–Cholon | Bobonaje River Valley | There were 500 Speakers in 1850. |
ca. 1850 | Norn | Indo-European | Northern Isles, United Kingdom | with the death of Walter Sutherland [234] [235] |
mid-19th century | Shinnecock | Algic | New York, United States | |
mid-19th century | Betoi | Betoi-Saliban? | Orinoco Llanos | |
ca. 1850s | Kott | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | [151] |
after or during 1840s | Bororo of Cabaçal | Macro-Jê languages | Mato Grosso, Brazil | |
ca. 1840s | Mator | Uralic | Sayan Mountains, Russia | |
after 1839 | Gulidjan | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | |
1838 | Nottoway | Iroquoian | Virginia, United States | with the death of Edith Turner |
after 1836 | Wathawurrung | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | |
after 1835 | Pali | Indo-European | India; Myanmar | [236] |
after 1833 | Esselen | Isolate (Hokan?) | California, United States | |
after 1833 | Cararí | Arawakan | Mucuim River, Amazonas, Brazil | A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1833. |
after 1832 | Charrúa | Charruan languages | Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay | |
after 1832 | Guenoa language | Charruan languages | Entre Ríos Province and Uruguay | |
after 1832 | Aroaqui | Arawakan | Lower Rio Negro Brazil | A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1832. |
after 1832 | Parawana | Arawakan | Lower Branco River Brazil | A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1832. |
after 1831 | Mepuri | Arawakan | Amazonas, Brazil | A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831. |
after 1831 | Mainatari | Arawakan | Siapa River (Orinoco basin) Venezuela | A word list was collected by Johann Natterer in 1831. |
6 June 1829 | Beothuk | Algic (disputed) | Newfoundland, Canada | with the death of Shanawdithit [237] |
after 1828 | Garza | Comecrudan | Mexico | |
after 1828 | Mamulique | Comecrudan | Nuevo León, Mexico | |
1821 | Karkin | Utian | California, United States | |
1820s-1830s | Acroá | Macro-Jê | Bahia, Brazil | |
after 1819 | Peerapper | Tasmanian | Tasmania, Australia | |
10 April 1815 | Tambora | unclassified (Papuan) | Sumbawa | following the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora. [238] |
after 1808 | Nuennone | Tasmanian | Tasmania, Australia | |
ca. 1803 | Bunwurrung | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | |
ca. 1800 | Krevinian | Uralic | Latvia | [239] |
ca. 1800 | Pallanganmiddang | Pama-Nyungan | Victoria, Australia | |
ca. 19th century | Assan | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | [151] |
ca. 19th century | Coptic | Afroasiatic | Egypt | apparently only in scattered places since the 17th century; [240] still in use as a liturgical language |
ca. 19th century | Crimean Gothic | Indo-European | Crimea, Ukraine | |
ca. 19th century | Mangue | Oto-Manguean | Central America | |
ca. 19th century | Sandy River Valley Sign Language | Martha's Vineyard Sign Language or isolate | Maine, United States | |
ca. 19th century | Volga Türki | Turkic | Idel-Ural | Evolved into Bashkir and Tatar. |
19th century | Chorotega | Oto-Manguean | Costa Rica; Nicaragua | [241] |
19th century | Jaikó | Macro-Jê | southeastern Piauí | |
19th century | Kemi Sami | Uralic | Lapland, Finland | [242] |
19th century | Matagalpa | Misumalpan | Nicaragua | |
19th century | Mediterranean Lingua Franca | Romance-based Pidgin | Tunisia; Greece; Cyprus | [243] |
19th century | Ramaytush | Utian | California, United States | |
19th century | Solombala English | English–Russian pidgin | Solombala Shipyard | [244] |
early 19th century | Cochimí | Yuman-Cochimi (Hokan?) | Baja California, Mexico | |
early 19th century | Pumpokol | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | [151] |
early 19th century | Wila' | Austroasiatic | Seberang Perai, Malaysia | |
early 19th century | Yurats | Samoyedic | central Siberia, Russia |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
late 18th century | Esuma | Kwa | southern Côte d'Ivoire | [245] |
late 18th century | Maipure | Arawakan | Upper Orinoco region | |
late 18th century | Ruthenian | Indo-European | Eastern Slavic regions of Poland-Lithuania | Evolved into Belarusian, Ukrainian and Rusyn. |
after the late 1790s | Chiriba | Panoan | Moxos Province, Bolivia | All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words in the late 1790s. |
after 1794 | Magiana | Arawakan | Bolivia | Magiana, an extinct Bolivia-Parana Arawakan language of Bolivia attested only with the wordlist in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. |
after 1791 | Eora | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland and New South Wales, Australia | [246] |
after 1791 | Quiripi | Algic | Connecticut/New York/New Jersey, United States | [247] |
ca. 1790s | Powhatan | Algic | eastern Virginia, United States | |
ca. 1790s | Ramanos | Unclassified | Moxos Province, Bolivia | |
after 1788 | Gundungurra | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [248] |
after 1788 | Otomaco | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | Known from a wordlist by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena written in December of 1788. |
after 1788 | Taparita | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | Known from a wordlist by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena written in December of 1788. |
after 1788 | Ngunnawal | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [248] |
after 1788 | Thurawal | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [248] |
26 December 1777 | Cornish | Indo-European | Cornwall, England | with the death of Dolly Pentreath [249] [notes 10] |
after 1770 | Weyto | unclassified | Ethiopia | |
after 1770 | Tamanaku | Cariban languages | Venezuela | |
1770 | Cuman | Turkic | north of Black Sea; Hungary | with the death of István Varró [250] |
ca. 1770s | Abipón | Mataco–Guaicuru | Argentina | |
after 1763 | Susquehannock | Iroquoian | Northeastern United States | After the Conestoga massacre. |
1760 | Galwegian dialect, Scottish Gaelic | Indo-European | Scotland, United Kingdom | with the death of Margaret McMurray |
3 October 1756 | Polabian | Indo-European | around the Elbe river, Poland/Germany | with the death of Emerentz Schultze [251] |
ca. 1730s | Arin | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | [151] |
18th Century | Ajem-Turkic | Turkic | Iran, Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and Dagestan | Evolved into Azerbaijani. |
18th century | Chané | Arawakan | Argentina | a dialect of Terêna |
18th century | Chibcha | Chibchan | Colombia | |
18th century | Classical Gaelic | Indo-European | Ireland and Scotland, United Kingdom | The literary language. Fell out of use with the collapse of Gaelic society. [252] |
18th century | Coahuilteco | Isolate/unclassified | Mexico; Texas, United States | |
18th century | Loup | Algic | Massachusetts and Connecticut, United States | |
18th century | Manao | Arawakan | Brazil | |
18th Century | Plateau Sign Language | Contact pidgin | Columbia Plateau, United States | |
18th century or earlier | Chuvan | Yukaghir | Chuvan was spoken in Anadyr (river) basin of Chukotka in Russia. | |
18th century or earlier | Omok | Yukaghir | Omok was spoken in Sakha and Magadan in Russia. | |
early 18th century | Apalachee | Muskogean | Florida, United States | |
early 18th century | Old Prussian | Indo-European | Poland |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
After 1492 | Judaeo-Aragonese | Indo-European | North Central Spain | After the Alhambra Decree |
After 1492 | Judaeo-Catalan | Indo-European | Eastern Spain | After the Alhambra Decree |
15th century AD | African Romance | Indo-European | Roman Africa | [267] |
15th century AD | Jassic | Indo-European | Hungary | [268] |
15th century AD | Old Anatolian Turkish | Turkic | Anatolia | Emerged in Anatolia late 11th century, and developed into early Ottoman Turkish. |
15th century AD | Old Nubian | Eastern Sudanic | Nubia | [269] Evolved into Nobiin. |
15th century AD | Tamna | Japonic? | Tamna | [270] |
end of 15th century | Mozarabic | Indo-European | Spain; Portugal | [271] |
late 15th century | Greenlandic Norse | Indo-European | Greenland | |
late 15th century | Selonian | Indo-European | Latvia; Lithuania |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
14th century | Bulgar | Turkic | Volga and Danube, Europe; Central Asia | By the 9th or 10th centuries on the Danube and by the 14th century in the Volga region. It may have ultimately given rise to the Chuvash language, which is most closely related to it. |
14th century | Daylami | Indo-European | South Caspian Sea | [272] |
14th century | Old Uyghur | Turkic | Central Asia, East Asia| | |
14th century | Khorezmian Turkic | Turkic | Central Asia | Evolved into Chagatai. |
14th century | Galindian | Indo-European | northern Poland; Russia | |
14th century | Zarphatic | Indo-European | northern France; west-central Germany | |
14th century | Galician-Portuguese | Indo-European | northwestern Spain, northern Portugal | Evolved into Galician, Portuguese, Eonavian and Fala. Some linguists argue that said languages could all still be considered modern varieties of Galician-Portuguese itself. |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
After 20 June 1244 | Khitan | Mongolic | Central Asia | with the death of Yelü Chucai [273] [notes 11] |
13th century | Karakhanid | Turkic | Central Asia | Evolved into Khorezmian Turkic. |
13th century | Pyu | Sino-Tibetan | central Myanmar | |
13th century | Siculo-Arabic | Afroasiatic | Emirate of Sicily | [274] Evolved into Maltese. |
13th century | Skalvian | Indo-European | Scalovia | |
12-13th centuries AD | Balhae | Tungusic? | Balhae |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
12th century | Pecheneg | Turkic | Eastern Europe | |
12th century | Khwarezmian | Indo-European | Khwarazm |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
11th – 12th century | Cumbric | Indo-European | England/Scotland, United Kingdom | |
11th – 12th century | Jewish Babylonian Aramaic | Afroasiatic | Iraq | [275] |
between 1000 and 1300 AD | Khazar | Turkic | northern Caucasus; Central Asia | |
ca. 1000 AD | Lombardic | Indo-European | central Europe; northern Italy | |
ca. 1000 AD | Merya | Uralic | Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia | |
ca. 1000 AD | Muromian | Uralic | Vladimir Oblast, Russia | |
ca. 1000 AD | Shauraseni Prakrit | Indo-European | Medieval India | [276] |
ca. 1000 AD | Sogdian | Indo-European | Sogdia | [277] Evolved into Yaghnobi. |
11th century | Old Church Slavonic | Indo-European | Eastern Europe | still used as a liturgical language |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
10th – 12th century | Syriac | Afroasiatic | Turkey; Iraq; Syria | now only used as liturgical language [278] |
10th – 12th century | Samaritan Aramaic | Afroasiatic | West Bank, Palestine; Israel | now only used as liturgical language [279] |
10th century | Himyaritic | Afroasiatic | Yemen | |
10th century | Paishachi | Indo-European | North India | [280] |
10th century | Saka | Indo-European | Xinjiang, China | Evolved into Wakhi. |
10th century | Zhang-Zhung | Sino-Tibetan | western Tibet (Central Asia) |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
9th century or later | Pictish | Indo-European | Scotland, United Kingdom | |
after 840 | Tocharian | Indo-European | Tarim Basin (Central Asia) | |
9th century | Gothic | Indo-European | Spain; Portugal; Italy | With the exception of Crimean Gothic |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
8th century AD | Aghwan | Northeast Caucasian | Azerbaijan | [281] Evolved into Udi. |
8th century AD | British Latin | Indo-European | Roman Britain | [282] |
8th century AD | Orkhon Turkic | Turkic | Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia | Evolved into Old Uyghur. |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
7th-10th century? | Goguryeo | Puyŏ, possibly Koreanic | Korea, China | |
after 620 AD | Rouran | Mongolic or isolate | Northern China and Mongolia | [283] |
ca. 600 | Avestan | Indo-European | Iran | [284] |
7th century AD | Baekje | Koreanic | Korea | may be more than one language. |
7th century AD | Buyeo | Puyŏ, possibly Koreanic | Manchuria | |
7th century AD | Gaya | Unclassified | Korea | [285] |
7th century AD | Mahan | Koreanic? | Mahan confederacy | [285] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
6th century AD | Ancient Cappadocian | Indo-European | Anatolia | [286] |
6th century AD | Burgundian | Indo-European | Kingdom of the Burgundians | [287] |
6th century AD | Dacian | Indo-European | Balkans | |
6th century AD | Gaulish | Indo-European | Gaul: France, Belgium, Germany and elsewhere | |
6th century AD | Illyrian | Indo-European | western Balkans | disputed |
6th century AD | Okjeo | Koreanic? | Okjeo | [285] |
6th century AD | Sabaean | Afroasiatic | Horn of Africa; Arabic Peninsula | |
6th century AD | Tuyuhun | Para-Mongolic | Northern China | Spoken around 500 AD. [288] |
6th century AD | Vandalic | Indo-European | Spain; North Africa | |
6th century AD | Ye-Maek | Koreanic? | Yemaek | [285] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
5th – 6th century | Hadramautic | Afroasiatic | Dhofar Mountains | |
before 6th century | Ligurian | unclassified, possibly Celtic or Indo-European | northwestern Italy; southeastern France | [289] |
after 453 | Hunnic | unclassified, possibly Oghuric | from the Eurasian steppe into Europe | |
ca. 400 AD | Egyptian | Afro-Asiatic | Ancient Egypt | [290] With the exception of Coptic. |
ca. 400 AD | Meroitic | unclassified, maybe Nubian | Sudan | |
5th century | Alanic | Indo-European | Alania and Iberia | [291] Evolved into Ossetian. |
5th century | Isaurian | Indo-European | Anatolia | |
5th century | Thracian | Indo-European | eastern and central Balkans | |
early 5th century | Punic | Afroasiatic | North Africa | |
after 400 AD | Phrygian | Indo-European | southeastern Bulgaria; Anatolia | [292] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
4th century AD | Hismaic | Afroasiatic | Ḥismā Oasis | [293] |
4th century CE | Aquitanian | Isolate or Vasconic | Novempopulania and Basque Country | Evolved into Basque. |
4th century CE | Galatian | Indo-European | central Anatolia | |
4th century CE | Geʽez | Afroasiatic | Ethiopia; Eritrea | still used as a liturgical language [294] |
4th century CE | Biblical Hebrew | Afroasiatic | Israel | revived in the 1880s |
after 300 CE | Parthian | Indo-European | Iran |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
after 274 AD | Palmyrene Aramaic | Afroasiatic | Palmyrene Empire | extended to the Western Roman Empire as far as Britannia [295] |
after 267 AD | Thamudic | Afroasiatic | Kingdom of Thamud | [296] |
3rd century AD | Gandhari | Indo-European | Gandhara | [297] |
3rd century AD | Rhaetic | unclassified, maybe Tyrsenian | eastern Alps | |
3rd century AD | Safaitic | Afroasiatic | Syria | [298] |
3rd century AD | Sidicini | Indo-European | Italy | |
3rd century AD | Xianbei | Para-Mongolic | Xianbei state | |
c. 200 CE | Qatabanian | Afro-Asiatic | Yemen |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
after 2nd century CE | Noric | Indo-European | Austria; Slovenia | |
after 2nd century CE | Pisidian | Indo-European | southwestern Anatolia | |
after 150 AD | Bactrian | Indo-European | Afghanistan | |
150 AD | Marsian | Indo-European | Marsica | [299] |
ca. 100 AD | Armazic | Afroasiatic | South Caucasus | [300] |
ca. 100 AD | Hasaitic | Afroasiatic | Al-Ahsa Oasis | [301] |
ca. 100 CE | Akkadian | Afroasiatic | Mesopotamia | [302] |
100 CE | Etruscan | Tyrsenian | central Italy | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Celtiberian | Indo-European | central-eastern Spain | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Gallaecian | Indo-European | northwestern Spain, northern Portugal | |
2nd century CE | Lusitanian | Indo-European | Portugal, southwestern Spain | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Sorothaptic | Indo-European | eastern Spain |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
1st – 2nd century AD | Iberian | unclassified | Spain; France | |
1st – 2nd century AD | Paeonian | Indo-European | Macedonia; Greece; Bulgaria | |
Approximately 50 AD | Lycaonian | unclassified | Lycaonia | |
1st century AD | Liburnian | Indo-European | western Croatia | |
1st century AD | Median | Indo-European | Persia | [304] |
1st century AD | Nabataean Arabic | Afro-Asiatic | Levant, Sinai Peninsula and northwest Arabia | |
1st century AD | Venetic | Indo-European | northeastern Italy | |
Approximately 100 AD | Oscan | Indo-European | southern Italy |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
50 BC | Cisalpine Gaulish | Indo-European | Cisalpine Gaul | [305] |
1st century BC | Elymian | unclassified | western Sicily | |
1st century BC | Lycian | Indo-European | southwestern Anatolia | |
1st century BC | Lydian | Indo-European | western Anatolia | |
1st century BC | Messapian | Indo-European | Apulia, Italy | |
1st century BC | Mysian | Indo-European | northwestern Anatolia | |
1st century BC | Sabine | Indo-European | central Italy | |
1st century BC | Sicanian | unclassified | central Sicily | |
1st century BC | Sicel | Indo-European | eastern Sicily | |
1st century BC | Umbrian | Indo-European | central Italy | |
early 1st millennium BC | Eteocretan | Isolate/unclassified | Crete, Greece | |
1st millennium BC | Milyan | Indo-European | Anatolia |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
100 BCE | Vestinian | Indo-European | east-central Italy | [306] |
ca. 150 BCE | Faliscan | Indo-European | Tuscany/Latium, Italy | |
ca. 100 BCE | Minaean | Afro-Asiatic | Yemen | |
2nd century BCE | Phoenician | Afro-Asiatic | Canaan, North Africa, Cyprus, Iberia, Sicily, Malta and Sardinia |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
232 BC | Ashokan Prakrit | Indo-European | South Asia | [307] |
ca. 3rd century BC | Aequian | Indo-European | Latium, east-central Italy | |
ca. 3rd century BC | Carian | Indo-European | southwestern Anatolia | |
ca. 3rd century BC | Elu | Indo-European | Sri Lanka | [308] Evolved into Sinhala and Dhivehi. |
ca. 3rd century BC | Lucanian | Indo-European | Lucania | [309] |
ca. 3rd century BC | Siculian | Indo-European | Sicily | [310] |
ca. 3rd century BC | Sidetic | Indo-European | southwestern Anatolia | |
ca. 3rd century BC | Volscian | Indo-European | Italy; Latium | |
ca. 200 BC | Numidian | Afro-Asiatic | Numidia | [311] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
early 4th century BC | Eteocypriot | Isolate/unclassified | Cyprus | |
4th century BC | Ancient Macedonian | Indo-European | northeastern Greece | |
4th century BC | Kassite | Hurro-Urartian? | Babylon | [312] |
4th century BC | South Picene | Indo-European | Picenum | [313] |
ca. 300 BC | Marrucinian | Indo-European | Chieti | [314] |
ca. 300 BC | Philistine | unclassified, maybe Indo-European | Israel; Lebanon | |
ca. 350 BC | Elamite | Isolate | Persia; southern Mesopotamia |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
after 5th century BC | Tartessian | unclassified | Spain | [315] |
5th century BC | Ammonite | Afroasiatic | northwestern Jordan | |
5th century BC | Moabite | Afroasiatic | northwestern Jordan | |
5th century BC | North Picene | Unclassified | Picenum | |
ca. 400 BC | Lepontic | Indo-European | northern Italy | |
early 5th century BC | Oenotrian | Indo-European | Southern Italy | [316] |
second half of the 1st millennium BC | Dadanitic | Afroasiatic | Lihyan | [317] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
after 6th century BC | Lemnian | Tyrsenian | Lemnos, Greece | [318] |
second half of the 6th century BC | Taymanitic | Afroasiatic | Tayma | [319] |
500 BC | Praenestinian | Indo-European | Palestrina | |
500 BC | Pre-Samnite | Indo-European | Campania | [320] |
6th century BC | Edomite | Afroasiatic | southwestern Jordan | |
6th century BC | Urartian | Hurro-Urartian | Armenia; Georgia; Iraq; Anatolia |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
620-580 BC | Cimmerian | Indo-European | North Caucasus and West Asia | [321] |
ca. 600 BC | Dumaitic | Afroasiatic | Dumat al-Jandal | [322] |
ca. 600 BCE | Luwian | Indo-European | Anatolia; northern Syria |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
730s BC | Samalian | Afro-Asiatic | Samʾal | [323] |
770s BC | South Gileadite | Afro-Asiatic | Deir Alla | [324] |
after 800 BC | Kaskian | Unclassified | Northeastern Anatolia and Colchis | [325] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
ca. 1000 BC | Hurrian | Hurro-Urartian | Anatolia; Syria; Mesopotamia | |
ca. 1050 BC | Cypro-Minoan | unclassified | Cyprus | may have evolved into Eteocypriot. |
ca. 1100 BC | Sutean | Afro-Asiatic | Northeast Syria | Spoken around 2100 BCE |
ca. 1100 BC | Hittite | Indo-European | Anatolia | |
after 1170 BC | Ugaritic | Afroasiatic | Syria | following the destruction of Ugarit |
ca. 1200 BC | Kalasmaic | Indo-European | Kalasma | [326] |
ca. 1200 BC | Mycenaean Greek | Indo-European | Mycenaean Greece and western Anatolia | [327] |
after 1300s BC | Mitanni-Aryan | Indo-European | Mitanni | [328] |
ca. 1300 BC | Palaic | Indo-European | northwest Anatolia | |
ca. 1450 BC | Minoan | unclassified | Crete | may have evolved into Eteocretan. |
ca. 1500 BC | Hattic | Unclassified, possibly Northwest Caucasian | Anatolia | |
ca. 1600 BC | Amorite | Afro-Asiatic | Levant | |
ca. 1900 BC | Harappan | Unclassified, possibly Dravidian | Indus River | [329] |
c. 2000-1800 BC | Sumerian | Isolate | Mesopotamia | used as a literary and liturgical language until about 100 CE [330] |
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|
after 2200 BC | Gutian | unclassified | Zagros Mountains? | |
3rd millennium BC | Eblaite | Afroasiatic | Syria | [331] |
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There are over 250 languages indigenous to Europe, and most belong to the Indo-European language family. Out of a total European population of 744 million as of 2018, some 94% are native speakers of an Indo-European language. The three largest phyla of the Indo-European language family in Europe are Romance, Germanic, and Slavic; they have more than 200 million speakers each, and together account for close to 90% of Europeans.
Ethnologue: Languages of the World is an annual reference publication in print and online that provides statistics and other information on the living languages of the world. It is the world's most comprehensive catalogue of languages. It was first issued in 1951, and is now published by SIL International, an American evangelical Christian non-profit organization.
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family—English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutch, and Spanish—have expanded through colonialism in the modern period and are now spoken across several continents. The Indo-European family is divided into several branches or sub-families, of which there are eight groups with languages still alive today: Albanian, Armenian, Balto-Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Hellenic, Indo-Iranian, and Italic; another nine subdivisions are now extinct.
The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated at between 1,250 and 2,100, and by some counts at over 3,000. Nigeria alone has over 500 languages, one of the greatest concentrations of linguistic diversity in the world. The languages of Africa belong to many distinct language families, among which the largest are:
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or shift to speaking other languages. Language loss occurs when 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 language may still be studied through recordings or writings, but it is still dead or extinct unless there are fluent speakers. Although languages have always become extinct throughout human history, they are currently dying at an accelerated rate because of globalization, mass migration, cultural replacement, imperialism, neocolonialism and linguicide.
An extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers. In contrast, a dead language is a language that no longer has any first-language speakers, but does have second-language speakers or is used fluently in written form, such as Latin. A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic identity to an ethnic group; these languages are often undergoing a process of revitalisation. Languages that have first-language speakers are known as modern or living languages to contrast them with dead languages, especially in educational contexts.
Pakistan is a multilingual country with over 70 languages spoken as first languages. The majority of Pakistan's languages belong to the Indo-Iranian group of the Indo-European language family.
Language revitalization, also referred to as language revival or reversing language shift, is an attempt to halt or reverse the decline of a language or to revive an extinct one. Those involved can include linguists, cultural or community groups, or governments. Some argue for a distinction between language revival and language revitalization. There has only been one successful instance of a complete language revival: that of the Hebrew language.
There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called Chavacano along with some local varieties of Chinese are also spoken in certain communities. The 1987 constitution designates Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog, as the national language and an official language along with English. Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as a lingua franca used by Filipinos of various ethnolinguistic backgrounds.
In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, 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 political causes, and, rarely, glottophagy, the absorption or replacement of a minor language by a major language.
ISO 639-3:2007, Codes for the representation of names of languages – Part 3: Alpha-3 code for comprehensive coverage of languages, is an international standard for language codes in the ISO 639 series. It defines three-letter codes for identifying languages. The standard was published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) on 1 February 2007.
Bishnupriya Manipuri, also known as Bishnupriya Meitei or simply as Bishnupriya, is an Indo-Aryan lect belonging to the Bengali–Assamese linguistic sub-branch. It is a creole of Bengali language and Meitei language and it still retains its pre-Bengali features. It is spoken in parts of the Indian states of Assam, Tripura and Manipur as well as in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh. It uses the Bengali-Assamese script as its writing system. Bishnupriya Manipuri, being a member of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, was evolved from Magadhi Prakrit. So, its origin is associated with Magadha realm. The Government of Tripura categorised Bishnnupriya Manipuri under the "Tribal Language Cell" of the State Council of Educational Research and Training. Its speakers are also given the "Other Backward Classes" status by the Assam Government and notably, there is no legal status of the Bishnupriyas in Manipur. In the 2020s, the Bishnupriya speaking people started demanding that the Assam Government should give them the status of "indigenous people" of Assam and treat the same like other indigenous communities of the state.
Diyari or Dieri is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken by the Diyari people in the far north of South Australia, to the east of Lake Eyre. It was studied by German Lutheran missionaries who translated Christian works into the language in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, so that it developed an extensive written form. Only a few fluent speakers of Diyari remained by the early 21st century, but a dictionary and grammar of the language was produced by linguist Peter K. Austin, and there is a project under way to teach it in schools.
Klamath, also Klamath–Modoc and historically Lutuamian, is a Native American language spoken around Klamath Lake in what is now southern Oregon and northern California. It is the traditional language of the Klamath and Modoc peoples, each of whom spoke a dialect of the language. By 1998, only one native speaker remained, and by 2003, this last fluent Klamath speaker who was living in Chiloquin, Oregon, was 92 years old. As of 2006 there were no fluent native speakers of either the Klamath or Modoc dialects; however, as of 2019, revitalization efforts are underway with the goal of creating new speakers.
Thailand is home to 51 living indigenous languages and 24 living non-indigenous languages, with the majority of people speaking languages of the Southwestern Tai family, and the national language being Central Thai. Lao is spoken along the borders with the Lao PDR, Karen languages are spoken along the border with Myanmar, Khmer is spoken near Cambodia and Malay is spoken in the south near Malaysia. Sixty-two 'domestic' languages are officially recognized, and international languages spoken in Thailand, primarily by international workers, expatriates and business people, include Burmese, Karen, English, Chinese, Japanese, and Vietnamese, among others.
The Sámi languages, also rendered in English as Sami and Saami, are a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Indigenous Sámi peoples in Northern Europe. There are, depending on the nature and terms of division, ten or more Sami languages. Several spellings have been used for the Sámi languages, including Sámi, Sami, Saami, Saame, Sámic, Samic and Saamic, as well as the exonyms Lappish and Lappic. The last two, along with the term Lapp, are now often considered pejorative.
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Last speakers probably survived into the 1990s.
Reportedly the last speaker of Taman died in the 1990s.
The Bala language is said to have become extinct in 1982,
The reputedly last native speaker of Arran Gaelic, Donald Craig (1899–1977)...
Taokas and Luilang might also be associated with this FPS subgroup, but available data on these now-extinct languages are too limited to determine this with any surety.
As to the present status of Kilit, it is a moribund, or more likely extinct, language mentioned and transcribed two or three times by nonlinguists from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The last known data collected was in the 1950s when speakers numbered only a few old men using it probably only as a trade jargon or secret language.
... The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921. The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931. The Akar-Bale of Ritchie's Archipelago, the Aka-Kede of Middle Andaman and the A-Pucikwar of South Andaman Island soon followed. By 1951, the census counted a total of only 23 Greater Andamanese and 10 Sentinelese. That means that just ten men, twelve women and one child remained of the Aka-Kora, Aka-Cari and Aka-Jeru tribes of Greater Andaman and only ten natives of North Sentinel Island ...
Andreev explains that 100 years ago there was an ancient Vanji language used by people of Vanj valley. He then provides as example that in 1925, when travelling to Vanj Valley, him and his travel companion met an old man who told that, when he was 11 years old, he was speaking Vanji language. Unfortunately, the old man could remember only 20-30 words, but even then, he was not sure if they were all correct.
The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921.
This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.
She is probably best known for her cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, recorded in 1899, which are the only audio recordings of an indigenous Tasmanian language.
Present state of the language: EXTINCT probably in the early 20th century, no exact date available
...the Jewish-Venetian dialect that survived into the 20th century.
Rangkas was recorded in the Western Himalayas as recently as the beginning of the 20th century, but is now extinct.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)Material from 15th-19th centuries AD.
Solombala-English, first investigated by Broch (1996), probably developed during the "English period" in the history of the city of Archangel, from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
István Varró, a member of the Jász-Cuman mission to the empress of Austria Maria Theresa and the known last speaker of the Cuman language, died in 1770.
...translation of two manuscripts written in Iceland in the seventeenth century. Since the contact situation was interrupted in the first part of the eighteenth century and was of intermittent nature, the contact pidgin probably never developed much further than the stage recorded in the manuscripts.
Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century
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.
the 11th century, to the end of the 15th century
Became extinct between 1920 and 1940.
15th century AD?
8th - 15th centuries AD.
Siculo Arabic is the term used for the variety (or varieties) of Arabic spoken in Sicily under the Arabs and then the Normans from the 9th to 13th centuries.
Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD...
100 BC - 1000 AD.
Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD, though it was probably spoken as early as the 5th century BC.
6th-8th Centuries AD.
the Khüis Tolgoi inscription must have been erected between 604 and 620 AD.
The echoes of native Cappadocian could be heard into the sixth century and perhaps beyond.
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.
5th century AD.
The last mention of Phrygian in use dates from the fifth century AD.
i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD
The earliest dated Palmyrene inscription is from the year 44 BC and the latest discovery has been dated to the year 274 AD.
These inscriptions are concentrated in northwest Arabia, and one occurs alongside a Nabataean tomb inscription dated to the year 267 CE.
... the Kharosthi script was used as a literary medium, that is, from the time of Asoka in the middle of the third century B.C. until about the third century A.D.
A minority of dated texts suggest that the practice of carving Safaitic inscriptions spanned at least from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
300-150 BC.
1st-2nd centuries AD.
They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.
7th century BC - 100 AD.
ca. 150-50 BC
The inscriptions of Asoka - a king of the Maurya dynasty who reigned, based in his capital Pataliputra, from 268 to 232 BC over almost the whole of India - were engraved in rocks and pillars, in various local dialects.
The ingredients of group consciousness mentioned above were kept alive principally because the Sinhalese people had a literate culture starting from about the third century B.C.
c. 200 BC.
Kassite (Cassite) was a language spoken by Kassites in northern Mesopotamia from approximately the 18th to the 4th century BC.
6th century BC to 4th century BC.
The tablet seems to have dated to the mid 3rd century BC.
Datable between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century B.C., the inscription from Tortora is an Oenotrian text,
Dadanitic was the alphabet used by the inhabitants of the ancient oasis of Dadan, probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BC.
Therefore, at least part of the Taymanitic corpus can safely be dated to the second half of the 6th century BCE.
...and Pre-Samnite (500 BC).
The development of the Classical tradition on the subject of the Cimmerians after their disappearance from the historical arena, no later than the very end of the 7th or very beginning of the 6th century BC
According to the Assyrian annals Dūma was the seat of successive queens of the Arabs, some of whom were also priestesses, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC.
820-730 BC.
The Kaška first appear on the territory of the Hittite empire in the 15th c. B.C. and are mentioned till 8th c. B.C.
... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
2500-1900 BC.
3rd Millenium BC.