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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. There are 176 languages listed. Argentina
Pages in category "Extinct languages of South America" The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The grouping of South American languages. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag. Loukotka, Čestmír. (1968). Classification of South American Indian languages. Los Angeles: Latin American Studies Center, University of California. Mason, J. Alden. (1950). The languages of South America.
Main language families of South America (other than Aimaran, Mapudungun, and Quechuan, which expanded after the Spanish conquest). Indigenous languages of South America include, among several others, the Quechua languages in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru and to a lesser extent in Argentina, Chile, and Colombia; Guaraní in Paraguay and to a much lesser extent in Argentina and Bolivia; Aymara in ...
An endangered language is a language that it is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes an extinct language. UNESCO defines four levels of language endangerment between "safe" (not endangered) and "extinct": [1] Vulnerable; Definitely endangered; Severely ...
Map of the Australian languages. ... extinct South America: Lule-Vilela: 2 extinct South America: Timotean: 2 200 South America: Tiniguan: 3 1 South America: Sign ...
Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as " endangered " in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, almost half of the languages known today will be lost forever. [ 1 ]
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