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Languages in Danger categories: This is a list of lists of extinct languages. By group. By continent. List of extinct languages of Africa; List of extinct languages ...
Eteocypriot writing, Amathous, Cyprus, 500–300 BC, Ashmolean Museum. An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. [1] [2] A dormant language is a dead language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic identity to an ethnic group; these languages are often undergoing a process of revitalisation. [3]
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 ...
For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. language portal Though the languages on these lists have no direct spoken descendant, some such as the Anglo-Norman language heavily influenced the development of a spoken language; in the case of Anglo-Norman, Middle English and Modern English ...
Pages in category "Extinct languages" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This article is missing information about the extinction dates of some of the languages and dialects. Please expand the article to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page. (November 2023)
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 69 languages listed. There are 69 languages listed.
A language isolate is a language that has no demonstrable genetic relationship with any other languages. [1] Basque in Europe, Ainu [ 1 ] in Asia, Sandawe in Africa, Haida and Zuni in North America, Kanoê in South America , Tiwi in Australia and Burushaski in Pakistan are all examples of such languages.