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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 La ...
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List of extinct languages of Africa 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 49 languages listed; 11 from Eastern Africa, 8 from Middle Africa, 17 from Northern A ...
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List of extinct languages of Asia {{Language Endangerment status 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 114 languages listed. 8 from Central Asia, 21 from East As ...
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List of extinct languages in Central America and the Caribbean 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 14 languages listed, 7 lost in Central America and 7 lost in ...
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List of extinct languages of Europe This is a list of extinct languages of Europe, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. As the vast majority of Europeans speak Indo-European languages, a result of the westward portion ...
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List of extinct languages of North America This is a list of extinct languages of North America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant, most of them being languages of former Native American tribes. There are 108 languages list ...
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List of extinct languages of South America 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 * Abipón *Chané * Cacán * Het * All ...


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Extinct language An extinct language is a language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants. In contrast, a dead language is one that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use, l ...
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Language policy Language policy is an interdisciplinary academic field. Some scholars such as Joshua Fishman and Ofelia García consider it as part of sociolinguistics. On the other hand, other scholars such as Bernard SpolskyRobert B. Kaplanand Joseph Lo Bianc ...
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Language death In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers. Other similar terms include linguicide, the de ...
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Lists of endangered languages Lists of endangered languages are mainly based on the definitions used by UNESCO. In order to be listed, a language must be classified as "endangered" in a cited academic source. Researchers have concluded that in less than one hundred years, al ...
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List of revived languages A revived language is one that, having experienced near or complete language extinction as either a spoken or written language, has been intentionally revived and has regained some of its former status. The most frequent reason for extinction i ...
* The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire {{DEFAULTSORT:Extinct language zh:滅亡語言列表