Language articles with unreferenced extinction date

Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. Through the expansion of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. It has greatly influenced many languages, including English, having contributed many words to the English lexicon, particularly after the Christianisation of the Anglo-Saxons and the Norman Conquest. Latin roots appear frequently in the

Sanskrit (; stem form ; nominal singular , ,) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. It arose in northwestern South Asia, deriving from Indo-Aryan languages that diffused from the northwest in the late Bronze Age. Sanskrit is the sacred language of Hinduism and classical Hindu philosophy and religion and the liturgical language of Buddhism and Jainism. It was a lingua franca in ancient and medieval South Asia, and, as Hindu and Buddhist culture spread to Southeast East and Central Asia in the early medieval era, it became a language of religi

Brythonic Celtic language indigenous to Cornwall

latest stage of the Egyptian language

earliest historical form of English

extinct East Germanic language spoken by the Goths

extinct language spoken in ancient Egypt

extinct Semitic language of Mesopotamia

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.

language that was used in the Ottoman Empire

language of ancient Sumer

medieval Slavic literary language, without ISO codes, preceding Church Slavonic (Q33251, cu, chu)

North Germanic language

ancient Mediterranean language

extinct Bronze Age Indo-European language

ancient Semitic language of the Mediterranean

common dialect of Greek spoken and written in the ancient world

extinct Turkic language of Central Asia

non-standard Latin variety spoken by the people of Ancient Rome

stage of the English language from about the 12th through 15th centuries

alliance of various Eurasian nomads – 6th to 9th centuries

extinct Romance language

extinct Germanic language spoken in the Northern Isles of Scotland

Gallo-Romance dialect continuum spoken from the 9th century to the middle of the 14th century

The Cimmerians were an ancient Eastern Iranic equestrian nomadic people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe, part of whom subsequently migrated into West Asia. Although the Cimmerians were culturally Scythian, they were ethnically distinct from the Scythians proper, to whom the Cimmerians were related and who displaced and replaced the Cimmerians.

ancient language in Mesopotamia

language of the Sino-Tibetan language family in written form (ISO 639-3: lzh) as opposed to the spoken, known as Old Chinese (ISO 639-3: och) or Middle Chinese (ISO 639-3: ltc)

language of Achaemenid Empire and ancestor of Middle Persian

language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century

southwestern Iranian language, predecessor to New Persian

Ugaritic ( ) is an extinct Northwest Semitic language known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologists in 1928 at Ugarit, including several major literary texts, notably the Baal cycle. The script is described as “a special alphabetic Cuneiform,” reflecting an idiom related to Canaanite and Hebrew languages.

extinct ancient Indo-European language

extinct language of southern Italy

Italian comune

archaic form of the Hebrew language

earliest stage of the German language, spoken from 500/750 to 1050 AD

extinct Northwest Caucasian language once spoken by the Ubykh people

language

stage of the Japanese language during the Heian period (794–1185)

historical Slavic language, ancestor of Belarusian, Rusyn, and Ukrainian; official, literary and spoken language of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Moldavian principality and East Slavic voivodeships of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

language or group of languages

Cumbric is an extinct Celtic Brythonic language or dialect that was spoken during the Early Middle Ages in the Hen Ogledd or "Old North", in what is now Northern England and the southern Scottish Lowlands. Place-name evidence suggests Cumbric may also have been spoken as far south as Pendle and the Yorkshire Dales. The prevailing view is that it became extinct in the 12th century, around the incorporation of the Kingdom of Strathclyde into the Kingdom of Scotland.

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archaic language in the Vedas (2nd millennium BCE)

earliest attested form of Turkic, found in Göktürk and Uyghur inscriptions dating from about the 7th century to the 13th century

dialect of Indo-European language spoken by the Phrygians

extinct dialect of the Phoenician language spoken in North Africa and the Western Mediterranean

extinct language spoken by the Picts

Romance language formerly spoken in the Iberian Peninsula

extinct ancient Hurro-Urartian language spoken in Mesopotamia in the 2nd millenium BC

The Xianbei (Mongolian:Сүнбэ; ; ) were an ancient nomadic people in northern East Asia who developed a distinct cultural and political identity by the 1st century BC. They inhabited regions spanning parts of present-day northeastern China, Inner Mongolia, and the eastern Eurasian steppe. Several Xianbei groups formed ruling regimes, with early political center around present-day Datong in Shanxi. The Xianbei were likely not of a single ethnicity, but rather a multilingual, multi-ethnic confederation consisting of mainly Proto-Mongols (who spoke either pre-Proto-Mongolic, or Para-Mongolic langu

extinct East Germanic language

Dilmun, or Telmun, (Sumerian: 15px, later , = ; ) was an ancient East Semitic–speaking civilization in Eastern Arabia mentioned from the 3rd millennium BC onwards, covering the transition from Prehistoric Arabia into the historic period. Based on contextual evidence, it was located in the Persian Gulf, on a trade route between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley Civilisation, close to the sea and to artesian springs. Dilmun encompassed Bahrain, Kuwait, and eastern Saudi Arabia.

Germanic language spoken 8C – 12C

oldest widely attested Goidelic Celtic language (c. 600 – c. 900); extinct language with ISO 639-3 code sga

language

medieval stage of the Greek language

dialect

extinct Celtic language from Asia Minor

indigenous language of North America