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  2. Languages of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The Malay language, a Malayo-Polynesian language alongside the Philippine languages, has had an immense influence on many of the languages of the Philippines. This is because Old Malay used to be the lingua franca throughout the archipelago, a good example of this is Magellan's translator Enrique using Malay to converse with the native ...

  3. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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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 .

  4. Lists of extinct languages - Wikipedia

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    Toggle By group subsection. 1.1 By continent. 1.2 By time of extinction. 1.3 By language family. 1.4 By region. 2 See also. ... List of extinct languages of Africa;

  5. Lists of endangered languages - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. List of endangered languages in Asia - Wikipedia

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    Extinct - "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" The list below includes the findings from the third edition of Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010; formerly the Red Book of Endangered Languages), as well as the online edition of the aforementioned publication, both published by ...

  7. 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]

  8. List of extinct languages of South America - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of extinct languages of South America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.

  9. 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 214 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia , 43 from East Asia , 20 from South Asia , 42 from Southeast Asia , 26 from Siberia and 70 from West Asia .