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  2. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    A word list was made in 1931. after 1931: Tuxinawa: Panoan: Acre, Brazil: A word list was made in 1931. by 1931: Aka-Bea: Andamanese: Andaman Islands, India [193] by 1931: Oko-Juwoi: Andamanese: Andaman Islands, India [193] after 1930: Sensi: Panoan: right bank of Ucayali River, Peru: A word list was created by Günter Tessmann in 1930. c. 1930 ...

  3. Latin - Wikipedia

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    The spoken Latin that would later become Romanian diverged somewhat more from the other varieties, as it was largely separated from the unifying influences in the western part of the Empire. Spoken Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear.

  4. History of Latin - Wikipedia

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    Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects of the Western Roman Empire, diverging significantly after 500 AD, evolved into the early Romance languages, whose writings began to appear about the 9th century.

  5. List of languages by first written account - Wikipedia

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    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: translation of the New Testament by Onesimos Nesib, assisted by Aster Ganno: 1900: Qaqet: grammar by Matthäus Rascher [211] 1903: Lingala ...

  6. Y - Wikipedia

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    Because [y] was not a native sound of Latin, Latin speakers had trouble pronouncing it, and it was usually pronounced /i/. [citation needed] Some Latin words of Italic origin also came to be spelled with 'y': Latin silva ('forest') was commonly spelled sylva, in analogy with the Greek cognate and synonym ὕλη. [7]

  7. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Romance; Latin/Neo-Latin: Geographic distribution: Originated in Old Latium on the Italian peninsula, now spoken in Latin Europe (parts of Eastern Europe, Southern Europe, and Western Europe) and Latin America (a majority of the countries of Central America and South America), as well as parts of Africa (Latin Africa), Asia, and Oceania.

  8. Old Latin - Wikipedia

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    The stem ends in the root consonant, except in the special case where it ends in -i (i-stem declension). The i-stem, which is a vowel-stem, partly fused with the consonant-stem in the pre-Latin period and went further in Old Latin. [36] I/y and u/w can be treated as either consonants or vowels; hence they are semi-vowels. Mixed-stem declensions ...

  9. List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Latin Pannonians Pecheneg: Turkic: 1100s AD [91] Eastern Europe: Pechenegs: Pelasgian: Unclassified [data missing] Aegean Islands: Pelasgians: Phrygian: Indo-European: after 400 AD [92] Balkans: Bryges: Pictish: Indo-European: 1000s AD [93] Northern Scotland: Picts: Polabian: Indo-European: 3 October 1756 AD [94] Northeastern Germany: Polabian ...