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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 ...
This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia;
Languages which became extinct before 1950 are the purview of Linguist List and are being gradually removed from Ethnologue; they are listed as an addendum to this page. There are 48 unclassified languages in the 25th edition of Ethnologue published in 2022.
Language name Language family Extinction date Notes References Beothuk: unclassified: 6 June 1829 Laurentian: Iroquoian: late 16th century Neutral Huron: Iroquoian: 1671 AD [1] Pentlatch: Salishan: 1940 Revival attempts underway [2] Petun: Iroquoian: 17th century Tagish: Na-Dene: 2008 Nicola: Na-Dene: early 20th century
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013. [2] [3] When judging whether or not a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than their age distribution.
Eteocypriot writing, Amathous, Cyprus, 500–300 BC, Ashmolean Museum. An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. [1] [2] 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. [3]
This is a partial list of extinct languages of South America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.
Yola, a sister language to English and Scots which was spoken in County Wexford, Ireland. Yola became extinct in 1998, but it has undergone an attempted revitalization and revival movement. The “Gabble Ing Yola” resource center for Yola materials claims there are approximately 140 speakers of the Yola language today. [24]