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List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia; List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe; List of extinct languages of Oceania; List of extinct languages of North America; List of extinct languages of South America
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 .
This is a collection of lists of extinct languages, languages that underwent language death and currently have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant.For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language.
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.
This article is a list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers, no spoken descendants, and that diverged from their parent language in Europe. Currently extinct [ edit ]
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 195 Indigenous, 2 Creole, 3 European, 4 Sign and 5 Pidgin languages listed. In total 209 languages.
Lists of extinct languages (11 P) E. Extinct sign languages (11 P) L. Last known speakers of a language (2 C, 22 P) M. Medieval languages (46 C, 94 P) T. Extinct ...
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 67 languages ...