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Toggle By group subsection. 1.1 By continent. 1.2 By time of extinction. 1.3 By language family. ... Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger; Endangered Languages ...
List of languages by time of extinction. An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the ...
Category. : Lists of extinct languages. This is a collection of lists of extinct languages, languages that underwent language death and currently have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant. For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. Though the languages on these lists have no direct ...
Map of major Dravidian languages. Distribution of the Indo-European language family branches across Eurasia. Area of the Papuan languages. Map of the Australian languages. Distribution of language families and isolates north of Mexico at first contact. The major South American language families. Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia.
Pages in category "Extinct languages" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Folia Uralica Debreceniensia 8.: 315–324. Retrieved 30 August 2024. Solombala-English, first investigated2 by Broch (1996), probably developed during the "English period" in the history of the city of Archangel, from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century. ^ "South Picene - MultiTree". LINGUIST List.
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. [2][3] When judging whether or not a language is endangered, the number of speakers is less important than their age distribution.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 November 2024. Group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor 2005 map of the contemporary distribution of the world's primary language families A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The ...