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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 .
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
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 ...
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 ...
Old East Slavic [a] (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, [4] until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. [5] Ruthenian eventually evolved into the Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian languages. [6]
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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 ...
Several of the extinct Baltic languages have a limited or nonexistent written record, their existence being known only from the records of ancient historians and personal or place names. All of the languages in the Baltic group (including the living ones) were first written down relatively late in their probable existence as distinct languages.