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In 1924, the Alaska Voter's Literacy Act was passed, which demanded native Alaskan citizens to pass an English literacy test before earning the right to vote. This act further decreased the use of Native Alaska languages. Today, many of the Native Alaskan languages are either on the brink of extinction or already extinct. [6]
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 .
However, out of those 256 languages, 238 are in the realm of extinction. [2] That is, 92% of languages that are dying. The United States has the highest number of dying languages, 143 out of 219 languages, [3] then Canada with 75 dying out of its 94 languages, [4] and lastly, Greenland has the smallest number, nil of its two spoken languages. [5]
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 196 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 210 languages.
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]
The Alaska Native Language Center believes that the common ancestral language of the Eskimoan languages and of Aleut divided into the Eskimoan and Aleut branches at least 4,000 years ago. [ 3 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Eskimoan language family split into the Yupik and Inuit branches around 1,000 years ago. [ 6 ]
Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages ...
Many languages throughout North America are polysynthetic ... Alaska Native Language Center This page was last edited on 11 December 2024, at 11:51 ...