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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 .
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 ...
Khuzdul (pronounced) is a fictional language created by J. R. R. Tolkien, one of the languages of Middle-earth, specifically the secret and private language of the Dwarves. He based its structure and phonology on Semitic languages, primarily Hebrew, with triconsonantal roots of words. Very little is known of the grammar.
Extinct Romance languages, extinct languages or dialects that descend from Vulgar Latin. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
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 ...
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.
Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as " endangered " in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [ 1 ]
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.