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 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 other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum.
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List
21st century
20th century
19th century
18th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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late 18th century | Esuma | Kwa | southern Côte d'Ivoire | [219] |
late 18th century | Maipure | Arawakan | Upper Orinoco region | |
after the late 1790s | Chiriba | Panoan | Moxos Province, Bolivia | All that was recorded of it was a list of seven words in the late 1790s. |
after 1794 | Magiana | Arawakan | Bolivia | Magiana, an extinct Bolivia-Parana Arawakan language of Bolivia attested only with the wordlist in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. |
after 1791 | Eora | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland and New South Wales, Australia | [220] |
after 1791 | Quiripi | Algic > Algonquian | Connecticut/New York/New Jersey, United States | [221] |
ca. 1790s | Powhatan | Algic > Algonquian | eastern Virginia, United States | |
ca. 1790s | Ramanos | Unclassified | Moxos Province, Bolivia | |
after 1788 | Gundungurra | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [222] |
after 1788 | Otomaco | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | Known from a wordlist by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena written in December of 1788. |
after 1788 | Taparita | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | Known from a wordlist by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena written in December of 1788. |
after 1788 | Ngunnawal | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [222] |
after 1788 | Thurawal | Pama-Nyungan | New South Wales, Australia | [222] |
26 December 1777 | Cornish | Celtic | Cornwall, England | with the death of Dolly Pentreath[223][notes 10] |
after 1770 | Weyto | unclassified | Ethiopia | |
after 1770 | Tamanaku | Cariban languages | Venezuela | |
1770 | Cuman | Turkic | north of Black Sea; Hungary | with the death of István Varró |
ca. 1770s | Abipón | Mataco–Guaicuru | Argentina | |
after 1763 | Susquehannock | Iroquoian | Northeastern United States | After the Conestoga massacre. |
1760 | Galwegian dialect, Scottish Gaelic | Celtic | Scotland, United Kingdom | with the death of Margaret McMurray |
3 October 1756 | Polabian | Slavic | around the Elbe river, Poland/Germany | with the death of Emerentz Schultze[224] |
ca. 1730s | Arin | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | [137] |
18th Century | Plateau Sign Language | Contact pidgin | Columbia Plateau, United States | |
18th century | Coahuilteco | isolate/unclassified | Mexico; Texas, United States | |
18th century | Loup language | Algic > Algonquian | Massachusetts and Connecticut, United States | |
18th century | Chibcha | Chibchan | Colombia | |
18th century | Manao | Arawakan | Brazil | |
18th century | Classical Gaelic | Celtic | Ireland and Scotland, United Kingdom | The literary language. Fell out of use with the collapse of Gaelic society.[225] |
ca. 18th century | Chané | Arawakan | Argentina | a dialect of Terêna |
early 18th century | Apalachee | Muskogean | Florida, United States | |
early 18th century | Old Prussian | Baltic | Poland | |
18th century or earlier | Omok | Yukaghir | Omok was spoken in Sakha and Magadan in Russia. | |
18th century or earlier | Chuvan | Yukaghir | Chuvan was spoken in Anadyr (river) basin of Chukotka in Russia. |
17th century
16th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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late 16th century | Knaanic | Slavic | Czech Republic; Poland | |
late 16th century | Laurentian | Iroquoian | Quebec/Ontario, Canada | |
after 1586 | Palta | unclassified | Ecuador | |
after 1548 | Taino | Arawakan | The Bahamas and Puerto Rico | |
1535 | Cueva | unclassified Chocoan? | Darién Province, Panama | The Cueva people were exterminated between 1510 and 1535 during Spanish colonization. |
after 1502 | Tangut | Sino-Tibetan | northwestern China; southern Mongolia | |
16th century | Semigallian | Baltic | Latvia; Lithuania | |
16th century | Guanahatabey | Unclassified | Pinar del Río Province and Isla de la Juventud, Cuba | |
16th century | Guanche | unclassified, maybe Berber | Canary Islands, Spain | [232] |
16th century | Navarro-Aragonese | Romance | southern Navarre, Spain | Aragonese is still spoken as a minoritary language in Spain. |
16th century | Judaeo-Portuguese | Romance | Belmonte, Portugal | |
15th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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After 1492 | Judaeo-Aragonese | Romance | North Central Spain | After the Alhambra Decree |
After 1492 | Judaeo-Catalan | Romance | Eastern Spain | After the Alhambra Decree |
15th century | Old Anatolian Turkish | Turkic | Anatolia | Emerged in Anatolia late 11th century, and developed into early Ottoman Turkish. |
end of 15th century | Mozarabic | Romance | Spain; Portugal | [233] |
late 15th century | Greenlandic Norse | Germanic | Greenland | |
late 15th century | Selonian | Baltic | Latvia; Lithuania |
14th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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14th century | Bulgar | Turkic | Volga and Danube, Europe; Central Asia | By the 9th or 10th centuries on the Danube and by the 14th century in the Volga region. It may have ultimately given rise to the Chuvash language, which is most closely related to it. |
14th century | Old Uyghur | Turkic | Central Asia, East Asia| | |
14th century | Khorezmian | Turkic | Central Asia | |
14th century | Galindian | Baltic | northern Poland; Russia | |
14th century | Zarphatic | Romance | northern France; west-central Germany | |
14th century | Galician-Portuguese | Romance | northwestern Spain, northern Portugal | Evolved into Galician, Portuguese, Eonavian and Fala. Some linguists argue that said languages could all still be considered modern varieties of Galician-Portuguese itself. |
13th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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13th century | Karakhanid | Turkic | Central Asia | evolved into Chagatai |
After 20 June 1244 | Khitan | Mongolic | Central Asia | with the death of Yelü Chucai[234][notes 11] |
13th century | Pyu | Sino-Tibetan | central Myanmar | |
13th century | Andalusi Romance | Romance | southern Spain |
11th and 12th centuries
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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12th century | Pecheneg | Turkic | Eastern Europe | |
12th century | Khwarezmian | Iranian | Khwarazm | |
11th – 12th century | Cumbric | Celtic | England/Scotland, United Kingdom | |
11th – 12th century | Jewish Babylonian Aramaic | Semitic | Iraq | [235] |
between 1000 and 1300 | Khazar | Turkic | northern Caucasus; Central Asia | |
ca. 1000 | Lombardic | Germanic | central Europe; northern Italy | |
ca. 1000 | Merya | Uralic | Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia | |
ca. 1000 | Muromian | Uralic | Vladimir Oblast, Russia | |
11th century | Old Church Slavonic | Slavic | Eastern Europe | still used as a liturgical language |
10th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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10th – 12th century | Syriac | Semitic | Turkey; Iraq; Syria | still used as a literary secular language[236] |
10th – 12th century | Samaritan Aramaic | Semitic | West Bank, Palestine; Israel | now only used as liturgical language[237] |
10th century | Sakan | Iranian | Xinjiang, China | |
10th century | Himyaritic | Semitic | Yemen | |
10th century | Zhang-Zhung | Sino-Tibetan | western Tibet (Central Asia) | |
9th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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9th century or later | Pictish | Celtic | Scotland, United Kingdom | |
after 840 | Tocharian | Indo-European | Tarim Basin (Central Asia) | |
9th century | Gothic | Germanic | Spain; Portugal; Italy | with the exception of Crimean Gothic |
8th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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8th century | Orkhon Turkic | Turkic | Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia | Replaced by Old Uyghur. |
7th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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ca. 600 | Avestan | Iranian | Iran | [238] |
7th century | Gaya | Unclassified | Korea | |
7th century | Baekje | Koreanic | Korea | may be more than one language. |
7th century | Buyeo | Puyŏ, possibly Koreanic | Manchuria | |
7th-10th century? | Goguryeo language | Puyŏ, possibly Koreanic | Korea, China | |
6th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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6th century | Ancient Cappadocian | Indo-European | Anatolia | |
6th century | Dacian | Indo-European | Balkans | |
6th century | Illyrian | Indo-European | western Balkans | disputed |
6th century | Sabaean | Semitic | Horn of Africa; Arabic Peninsula | |
6th century | Vandalic | Germanic | Spain; North Africa | |
6th century | Gaulish | Celtic | Gaul: France, Belgium, Germany and elsewhere | |
6th century | Ruanruan language | Mongolic or isolate | Northern China and Mongolia | spoken from the 4th to the 6th century AD |
5th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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5th – 7th century | Phrygian | Indo-European | southeastern Bulgaria; Anatolia | |
5th – 6th century | Hadramautic | Semitic | Dhofar Mountains | |
before 6th century | Ligurian | unclassified, possibly Celtic or Indo-European | northwestern Italy; southeastern France | [239] |
after 453 | Hunnic | unclassified, possibly Oghuric | from the Eurasian steppe into Europe | |
ca. 400 | Meroitic | unclassified, maybe Nilo-Saharan | Sudan | |
5th century | Thracian | Indo-European | eastern and central Balkans | |
5th century | Isaurian | Anatolian | Anatolia | |
early 5th century | Punic | Semitic | North Africa | |
4th century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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4th century CE | Galatian | Celtic | central Anatolia | |
4th century CE | Geʽez | Semitic | Ethiopia; Eritrea | still used as a liturgical language[240] |
4th century CE | Biblical Hebrew | Semitic | Israel | revived in the 1880s |
after 300 CE | Parthian | Iranian | Iran | |
3rd century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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3rd century CE | Raetic | unclassified, maybe Tyrsenian | eastern Alps | |
c. 200 CE | Qatabanian | Afro-Asiatic | Yemen | |
2nd century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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after 2nd century CE | Noric | Celtic | Austria; Slovenia | |
after 2nd century CE | Pisidian | Anatolian | southwestern Anatolia | |
after 150 | Bactrian | Iranian | Afghanistan | |
ca. 100 CE | Akkadian | Semitic | Mesopotamia | [241] |
100 CE | Etruscan | Tyrsenian | central Italy | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Celtiberian | Celtic | central-eastern Spain | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Gallaecian | Celtic | northwestern Spain, northern Portugal | |
2nd century CE | Lusitanian | Indo-European | Portugal, southwestern Spain | |
ca. 2nd century CE | Sorothaptic | Indo-European | eastern Spain | |
1st century
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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1st – 2nd century CE | Paeonian | Indo-European | Macedonia; Greece; Bulgaria | |
1st – 2nd century CE | Iberian | unclassified | Spain; France | |
1st century CE | Liburnian | Indo-European | western Croatia | |
Approximately 100 CE | Oscan | Italic | southern Italy | |
1st century CE | Venetic | Indo-European | northeastern Italy | |
1st century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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1st century BCE | Elymian | unclassified | western Sicily | |
1st century BCE | Lycian | Anatolian | southwestern Anatolia | |
1st century BCE | Lydian | Anatolian | western Anatolia | |
1st century BCE | Messapian | Indo-European | Apulia, Italy | |
1st century BCE | Mysian | Anatolian | northwestern Anatolia | |
1st century BCE | Sabine | Italic | central Italy | |
1st century BCE | Sicanian | unclassified | central Sicily | |
1st century BCE | Sicel | Indo-European | eastern Sicily | |
1st century BCE | Umbrian | Italic | central Italy | |
early 1st millennium BCE | Eteocretan | isolate/unclassified | Crete, Greece | |
1st millennium BCE | Milyan | Anatolian | Anatolia | |
2nd century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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100 BCE | Vestinian | Italic | east-central Italy | |
ca. 150 BCE | Faliscan | Italic | Tuscany/Latium, Italy | |
ca. 100 BCE | Minaean | Afro-Asiatic | Yemen | |
3rd century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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ca. 3rd century BCE | Volscian | Italic | Italy; Latium | |
ca. 3rd century BCE | Aequian | Italic | Latium, east-central Italy | |
ca. 3rd century BCE | Sidetic | Anatolian | southwestern Anatolia | |
3rd century BCE | Carian | Anatolian | southwestern Anatolia | |
4th century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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early 4th century BCE | Eteocypriot | isolate/unclassified | Cyprus | |
4th century BCE | Ancient Macedonian | Indo-European | northeastern Greece | |
ca. 300 BCE | Philistine | unclassified, maybe Indo-European | Israel; Lebanon | |
ca. 350 BCE | Elamite | isolate | Persia; southern Mesopotamia | |
5th century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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after 5th century BCE | Tartessian | unclassified | Spain | |
5th century BCE | Ammonite | Semitic | northwestern Jordan | |
5th century BCE | Moabite | Semitic | northwestern Jordan | |
ca. 400 BCE | Lepontic | Celtic | northern Italy | |
6th century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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after 6th century BCE | Lemnian | Tyrsenian | Lemnos, Greece | [242] |
6th century BCE | Edomite | Semitic | southwestern Jordan | |
6th century BCE | Urartian | Hurro-Urartian | Armenia; Georgia; Iraq; Anatolia | |
7th century BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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ca. 600 BCE | Luwian | Anatolian | Anatolia; northern Syria | |
2nd millennium BCE
Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
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c. 2000-1800 BCE | Sumerian | isolate | Mesopotamia | used as a literary and liturgical language until about 100 CE[243] |
ca. 1500 BCE | Hattic | Unclassified, possibly Northwest Caucasian | Anatolia | |
ca. 1450 BCE | Minoan | unclassified | Crete | may have evolved into Eteocretan |
ca. 1300 BCE | Palaic | Anatolian | northwest Anatolia | |
after 1170 BCE | Ugaritic | Semitic | Syria | following the destruction of Ugarit |
ca. 1100 BCE | Hittite | Anatolian | Anatolia | |
ca. 1100 BCE | Sutean | Afro-Asiatic | Northeast Syria | Spoken around 2100 BCE |
ca. 1050 BCE | Cypro-Minoan | unclassified | Cyprus | may have evolved into Eteocypriot |
ca. 1000 BCE | Hurrian | Hurro-Urartian | Anatolia; Syria; Mesopotamia | |
Unknown date
Notes
- Last surviving native speaker; it is being taught as a second language on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State.
- Last surviving native speaker; some children still learn it as a second language.
- Brother of Lenape traditionalist and language preservation activist Nora Thompson Dean
- The last full-blooded Selknam Indian, but some have suggested certain people remained fluent in the languages until the 1980s.
- Last attested speaker of a Chumashan language
- Last member of the Yahi, the last surviving group of the Yana people who spoke Yana
- Considered to be the last fluent speaker of a Tasmanian language.
- Considered to be the last full-blood speaker of a Tasmanian language;[201] however, Fanny Cochrane Smith, who spoke one of the Tasmanian languages, outlived her.
- Last full-blooded speaker, though partial knowledge of this language continued among mixed Cayuga-Tutelo descendants for some time.
- Possibly the last fluent native speaker of the Cornish language, was monoglot until her twenties. See Last speaker of the Cornish language.
- Last person known to speak, read, and write in Khitan.
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