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A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the ...
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;
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 .
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 ...
Extinct - "there are no speakers left; included in the Atlas if presumably extinct since the 1950s" The list below includes the findings from the third edition of Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2010; formerly the Red Book of Endangered Languages), as well as the online edition of the aforementioned publication, both published by ...
extinct languages of the Fertile Crescent such as Sumerian and Elamite. extinct languages of South Asia; mainly the unclassified Harappan language; small language families and isolates of the Indian subcontinent: Burushaski, Kusunda, and Nihali. The Vedda language of Sri Lanka is likely an isolate that has mixed with Sinhala.
SIL Ethnologue (2005) lists 473 out of 6,909 living languages inventorised (6.8%) as "nearly extinct", indicating cases where "only a few elderly speakers are still living"; this figure dropped to 6.1% as of 2013.
The language was originally listed by Garvan (1963: 8). [3] Katabaga is in fact a misspelling of Katabangan, the name that the people use to refer to themselves. Some people in the Bikol Region also use the term Katabangan to refer to mixed-blood Agta in the region. Lobel (2013: 92) reports from a 2006 visit that the Katabangan speak only Tagalog.