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There are some 130 to 195 languages spoken in the Philippines, depending on the method of classification. [3][4][5][6] Almost all are Malayo-Polynesian languages native to the archipelago. A number of Spanish-influenced creole varieties generally called Chavacano along with some local varieties of Chinese [7][8][9] are also spoken in certain ...
1 By group. 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 ...
List of languages by time of extinction. An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the ...
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. [2][3] When judging whether or not a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than their age distribution.
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 ...
Lists of extinct languages. 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. Though the languages on these lists have no direct spoken ...
Map of major Dravidian languages. Distribution of the Indo-European language family branches across Eurasia. Area of the Papuan languages. Map of the Australian languages. Distribution of language families and isolates north of Mexico at first contact. The major South American language families. Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia.
Extinct language. An extinct language is a language with no living descendants that no longer has any first-language or second-language speakers. [1][2] In contrast, a dead language is a language that no longer has any first-language speakers, but does have second-language speakers or is used fluently in written form, such as Latin. [3]