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  2. Lists of extinct languages - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    Only a few people remembered the language in 1961 It is not clear if this is a single language. 1961: Northeastern Pomo: Pomoan(Hokan?) California, United States: 1960: Oriel dialect, Irish: Indo-European: Ireland: with the death of Annie O'Hanlon [166] [167] 1960: Siuslaw: Isolate: Oregon, United States: with the death of Mary Barrett Elliott.

  4. Extinct language - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of extinct languages of North America - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of extinct languages of Asia - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  8. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language in 1901. [207] [208] A list of 61 words recorded in 1770 by James Cook and Joseph Banks was the first written record of an Australian language. [209] 1891: Galela: grammatical sketch by M.J. van Baarda [210] 1893: Oromo

  9. List of extinct languages of Africa - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 69 languages listed. There are 69 languages listed.