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This is a list of extinct languages of Central America and the Caribbean, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendants. There are 27 languages listed, 19 lost in Central America and 8 lost in the Caribbean.
206 possibly extinct [CR(PE)] 0 possibly extinct in the wild [CR ... Mexipyrgus de west el Mojarral snail ... La Palma grayling ...
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 endangered; Critically endangered
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 35 extinct species, 146 possibly extinct species, two extinct in the wild species, and one possibly extinct in the wild species of amphibians. [1] [2]
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 ...
Nawat (academically Pipil, also known as Nahuat) is a Nahuan language native to Central America.It is the southernmost extant member of the Uto-Aztecan family. [9] Before Spanish colonization it was spoken in several parts of present-day Central America, most notably El Salvador and Nicaragua, but now is mostly confined to western El Salvador. [3]
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
Known from subfossil remains. Possibly extinct by introduced predators like feral dogs, cats, pigs, and black rats. [26] Darwin's Galápagos mouse: Nesoryzomys darwini: Santa Cruz, Galápagos Islands Last recorded in 1930. Extinct due to competition, pathogens transmitted by, or predation by black rats, house mice, brown rats, and feral cats. [27]