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2. Lists of extinct languages - Wikipedia

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   List of revived languages; The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire This page was last edited on 19 August 2024, at 05:44 (UTC). Text is ...

3. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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   A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...

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. Lists of endangered languages - Wikipedia

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   There are languages in Indonesia reported with as many as two million native speakers alive now, but all of advancing age, with little or no transmission to the young. On the other hand, while there are only 30,000 Ladin speakers left, almost all children still learn it as their mother tongue; thus Ladin is not currently endangered.

9. Language death - Wikipedia

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   The most common process leading to language death is one in which a community of speakers of one language becomes bilingual with another language, and gradually shifts allegiance to the second language until they cease to use their original, heritage language. This is a process of assimilation which may be voluntary or may be forced upon a ...