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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 ]
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;
This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, ... Ethnic group(s) Native to Notes Avestan: Indo-European: 800s BC [1]
An endangered language or moribund language is a language that is at risk of disappearing as its speakers die out or ... Sometimes ethnic groups are forcibly ...
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.
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Date of revival Region Ethnic group Cornish: Indo-European: 1700s AD [126] 1900s Cornwall: Cornish people: Livonian: Uralic: 2 June 2013 [127] 2020 Livonian Coast: Livonians: Manx: Indo-European: 27 December 1974 [128] 1970s Isle of Man: Manx people
A language thought to be an isolate may turn out to be related to other languages once enough material is recovered, but this is unlikely for extinct languages whose written records have not been preserved. [1] Many extinct languages are very poorly attested, which may lead to them being considered unclassified languages instead of language ...