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The Eskimo language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [14] [15] Russian-American linguist Alexander Vovin argues that based on Eskimo loanwords in Northern Tungusic, but not Southern Tungusic languages, these languages originated in eastern Siberia, with the languages interacting around 2000 years ago. [38]
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 .
Prior to Confederation, the territories that would become Canada were home to over 70 distinct languages across 12 or so language families. Today, a majority of those indigenous languages are still spoken; however, most are endangered and only about 0.6% of the Canadian population report an indigenous language as their mother tongue.
This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant, most of them being languages of former Native American tribes. There are 207 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 221 languages.
Many of these groups eventually mixed with older populations, the researchers said. The study found that most of the migrations involved people speaking three main branches of Germanic languages.
This page is an index to individual articles for years. Years are shown in chronological order. ... 2000; 3rd millennium. 21st century. 2001; ... 50 languages ...
Before Confederation there were no legal statutes whatever governing language rights.” [19] However, in practice French is used as a language of schooling in Acadian communities (provided by the Catholic Church), and court cases are conducted in French in certain New Brunswick jurisdictions. When French-language schooling is eventually ...
By the early 21st century, only a few fluent speakers of Diyari remained. However, by 2013 Peter K. Austin had produced a dictionary and grammar of the language, and as of 2019, there is a project under way to teach it in schools. [citation needed] Kaurna is the language of the Kaurna people of Adelaide and the Adelaide plains in South