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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 ...
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
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 [168] [169] 1960: Siuslaw: Isolate: Oregon, United States: with the death of Mary Barrett Elliott.
Pages in category "Extinct languages of Africa" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Wamalwa, E. W., & Stephen, O. (2013). Language endangerment and language maintenance: Can endangered indigenous languages of Kenya be electronically preserved?. Sands, B. (2017). The challenge of documenting Africa's least known languages. Africa's endangered languages: Documentary and theoretical approaches, 11–38.
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] The lists are organized by region.
UNESCO flag. The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.It originally replaced the Red Book of Endangered Languages as a title in print after a brief period of overlap before being transferred to an online-only publication.
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]