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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 .
Language/dialect Family Date of extinction Date of revival Region Ethnic group Cornish: Indo-European: 1700s AD [125] 1900s Cornwall: Cornish people: Livonian: Uralic: 2 June 2013 [126] 2020 Livonian Coast: Livonians: Manx: Indo-European: 27 December 1974 [127] 1970s Isle of Man: Manx people
List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages of Asia; List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe; List of extinct languages of Oceania; List of extinct languages of North America; List of extinct languages of South America
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 ".
A poll held November 2009 revealed that 54.7% of the population of Ukraine believed the language issue in Ukraine was irrelevant, that each person could speak the language they preferred and that a lot more important problems existed in the country; 14.7% of those polled stated that the language issue was an urgent problem that could not be ...
Unlike Ukraine under Russian rule, there were no administrative obstacles to the development of the Ukrainian literary language in western Ukraine, which was part of the Austrian Empire. However, due to its inferior status (the official language was first German, then Polish, the Ukrainian community lacked a Ukrainian-speaking intelligentsia ...
Ruthenian (ру́скаꙗ мо́ва or ру́скїй ѧзы́къ; [1] [2] [failed verification] see also other names) is an exonymic linguonym for a closely related group of East Slavic linguistic varieties, particularly those spoken from the 15th to 18th centuries in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in East Slavic regions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
"What language is spoken in Ukraine", in Welcome to Ukraine, 2003, 1. All-Ukrainian population census 2001; Конституція України (Constitution of Ukraine) (in Ukrainian), 1996, English translation (excerpts). 1897 census; Literaturnyy Forum (Ukrainian language) Ukrainian–English Dictionary