Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Although the first known text by native speakers dates to 1885, the first record of the language is a list of words recorded in 1793 by Alexander MacKenzie. 1885: Motu: grammar by W.G. Lawes: 1886: Guugu Yimidhirr: notes by Johann Flierl, Wilhelm Poland and Georg Schwarz, culminating in Walter Roth's The Structure of the Koko Yimidir Language ...
Map of known Paleo-European languages, including substrate languages.. The Paleo-European languages (sometimes also called Old European languages) [1] [2] are the mostly unknown languages that were spoken in Neolithic (c. 7000 – c. 1700 BC) and Bronze Age Europe (c. 3200 – c. 600 BC) prior to the spread of the Indo-European and Uralic families of languages.
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 ...
The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...
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 .
The following is a table of European languages. The number of speakers as a first or second language (L1 and L2 speakers) listed are speakers in Europe only; [nb 1] see list of languages by number of native speakers and list of languages by total number of speakers for global estimates on numbers of speakers. [citation needed]
Gaulish is an extinct Celtic language spoken in parts of Continental Europe before and during the period of the Roman Empire.In the narrow sense, Gaulish was the language of the Celts of Gaul (now France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, Northern Italy, as well as the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the Rhine).
Oldest language" may refer to: the emergence of language itself in human evolution. origin of language; proto-language, a stage before the emergence of language proper; mythical origins of language; a Proto-human language, the hypothetical, most recent common ancestor of all the world's languages; the date of attestation in writing .