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List of languages by total number of speakers; UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group
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 ...
A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers. The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state , which might at times amount to outright political oppression.
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]
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.
For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. language portal Though the languages on these lists have no direct spoken descendant, some such as the Anglo-Norman language heavily influenced the development of a spoken language; in the case of Anglo-Norman, Middle English and Modern English ...
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 204 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 218 languages.
This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. There are 215 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia , 43 from East Asia , 20 from South Asia , 43 from Southeast Asia , 26 from Siberia and 70 from West Asia .