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  2. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...

  3. Paleo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    Map of known Paleo-European languages, including substrate languages.. The Paleo-European languages, or Old European languages, are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Europe prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families caused by the Bronze Age invasion from the Eurasian steppe of pastoralists whose descendant languages dominate the continent today.

  4. Languages of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The Indo-European language family is descended from Proto-Indo-European, which is believed to have been spoken thousands of years ago.Early speakers of Indo-European daughter languages most likely expanded into Europe with the incipient Bronze Age, around 4,000 years ago (Bell-Beaker culture).

  5. Proto-Indo-European language - Wikipedia

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    Proto-Indo-European (PIE) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European language family. [1] No direct record of Proto-Indo-European exists; its proposed features have been derived by linguistic reconstruction from documented Indo-European languages. [2]

  6. Pre-Indo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    The oldest Indo-European language texts are Hittite and date from the 19th century BC in Kültepe (modern eastern Turkey), and while estimates vary widely, the spoken Indo-European languages are believed to have developed at the latest by the 3rd millennium BC (see Proto-Indo-European Urheimat hypotheses). Thus, the pre-Indo-European languages ...

  7. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    Chuvan was spoken in Anadyr (river) basin of Chukotka in Russia. 18th century or earlier: Omok: Yukaghir: Omok was spoken in Sakha and Magadan in Russia. early 18th century: Apalachee: Muskogean: Florida, United States: early 18th century: Old Prussian: Indo-European: Poland

  8. Indo-European languages - Wikipedia

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    The oldest records are isolated Hittite words and names—interspersed in ... is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Indo-European languages, spoken by the Proto ...

  9. List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Region Ethnic group(s) Aeolic Greek: Indo-European: 300 BC [citation needed] Aeolis, Boeotia, Lesbos, Thessaly: Aeolians: Aequian: Indo-European: 200s BC [1] East-central Italy: Aequi: Akkala Sámi: Uralic: 29 December 2003 [2] Southwest Kola Peninsula: Akkala Sámi: Alavese: Basque (language isolate ...