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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 .
In a separate study by Thomas N. Headland, the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Dallas, and the University of North Dakota called Thirty Endangered Languages in the Philippines, the Philippines has 32 endangered languages, but 2 of the listed languages in the study are written with 0 speakers, noting that they are extinct or probably extinct ...
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;
A revived language is a language that at one point had no native speakers, but through revitalization efforts has regained native speakers.. The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state, which might at times amount to outright political oppression.
This article is a list of language families. This list only includes primary language families that are accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics ; for language families that are not accepted by the current academic consensus in the field of linguistics, see the article " List of proposed language families ".
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.
Dicamay Agta is an extinct Aeta language of the northern Philippines. The Dicamay Agta lived on the Dicamay River, on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela. The Dicamay Agta were killed by Ilocano homesteaders sometime between 1957 and 1974 (Lobel 2013:98). Richard Roe collected a Dicamay word list of 291 words in 1957.
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 .