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Avestan ( ) is the liturgical language of Zoroastrianism. It belongs to the Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family and was originally spoken during the Avestan period ( BCE) by the Iranians living in eastern Greater Iran as evidenced from names in Avestan geography.

The Dardani (; ; ) or Dardanians were a Paleo-Balkan people, who lived in a region that was named Dardania after their settlement there. They were among the oldest Balkan peoples, and their society was very complex. The Dardani were the most stable and conservative ethnic element among the peoples of the central Balkans, retaining an enduring presence in the region for several centuries.

Eastern Amazigh (Berber) language of Libya

The Hernici were an Italic tribe of ancient Italy, whose territory was in Latium between the Fucine Lake and the Sacco River (Trerus), bounded by the Volsci on the south, and by the Aequi and the Marsi on the north.

Judaeo-Catalan (; , ), also called Catalanic or Qatalanit (; or ''''), was a presumed Jewish language spoken by the Jews in Northern Catalonia and what is today Northeastern Spain, especially in Catalonia, Valencia and the Balearic Islands.

Bantu language of Zimbabwe and Zambia

tribe of the Native American Tunica people

southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent

Cape Fear Indians

Native American tribe

The Koroa were one of the groups of Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands who lived in the Mississippi Valley before French colonization. The Koroa lived in the Yazoo River basin in present-day northwest Mississippi.

Agaw language of Beta Israel

a tribe from Assam, India

extinct Chibcha language, spoken by the Muisca of present-day Boyacá, Colombia

The Opelousa (also Appalousa) were an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands in Louisiana. They lived near present-day Opelousas, Louisiana, west of the lower Mississippi River, in the 18th century. At various times, they allied with the neighboring Atakapa and Chitimacha peoples.

Extinct Australian Aboriginal language

The Cheraw people, also known as the Saraw or Saura, were a possibly Siouan language-speaking tribe of Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, in the Piedmont area of North Carolina near the Sauratown Mountains, east of Pilot Mountain and north of the Yadkin River. They lived in villages near the Catawba River.

dialect of Old English

Extinct Australian Aboriginal language

Extinct Australian Aboriginal language

spurious language

extinct language

extinct Amazigh (Berber) language

extinct Arawakan language of Brazil

language spoken in parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo by the Amba people

The Garachi (; ) or the Karachi () are a group of the Dom people living in Azerbaijan and Turkey. Little research has been done on the Garachi, and most of what is known about them is based on the works of the 19th-century Russian scholars Kerope Patkanov and Jean-Marie Chopin.

extinct language in Buru Island, Indonesia

extinct Arawakan language of Brazil

Judeo-Malay (, Jawi: , Hebrew: מלאית-יהודית) is a variant of the Malay language once spoken or written by the Jews of Penang, a state located in northern Peninsular Malaysia. Judeo-Malay is the only known recorded Jewish language of the Austronesian family. The surviving manuscripts of Judeo-Malay are recorded on a notepad of an Iranian Jew by the name of Rahamim Jacob Cohen, which is currently kept in the Microfilms of Alalay Manuscripts from the British Library Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections.

The Pascagoula (also Pascoboula, Pacha-Ogoula, Pascagola, Pascaboula, Paskaguna) were an indigenous group living in coastal Mississippi on the Pascagoula River.

extinct indigenous Tucanoan language of Colombia

extinct Arawakan language of Brazil

Native American people of South Carolina

The Xixime were an indigenous people who inhabited a portion of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in the present day states of Durango and Sinaloa, Mexico. The Xixime are noted for their reported practice of cannibalism and resistance to Spanish colonization in the form of the Xixime Rebellion of 1610.

extinct Arawakan language of Brazil

extinct Australian Aboriginal language