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Languages attested from the 9th century

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French
Romance language
Portuguese
Western Romance language
Breton
Celtic language spoken in France
Javanese
Austronesian language
Malayalam
thumb|A Malayalam speaker, recorded in South Africa Malayalam (, ) is a Dravidian language, primarily spoken by the Malayali people, native to the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district). It is one of 22 scheduled languages, as well as one of 11 classical languages, of India. Malayalam has official language status in Kerala, Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé).
Khmer
Austroasiatic language of Cambodia
Cornish
Brythonic Celtic language indigenous to Cornwall
Old Church Slavonic
medieval Slavic literary language, without ISO codes, preceding Church Slavonic (Q33251, cu, chu)
Balinese
Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of Bali
Kawi
oldest attested phase of the Javanese language
Andalusi Arabic
variety of Arabic formerly spoken on the Iberian Peninsula
Siculo-Arabic
Siculo-Arabic or Sicilian Arabic is a group of Arabic varieties that were spoken in the Emirate of Sicily from the 9th century, persisting under the subsequent Norman rule until the 13th century. However, only one dialect of Siculo-Arabic is still spoken: Maltese. Siculo-Arabic dialects descend from Arabic following the Abbasid conquest of Sicily in the 9th century and gradually marginalized following the Norman conquest in the 11th century.
Galician–Portuguese
Galician–Portuguese ( or ; or ), also known as Old Galician–Portuguese, Galaic-Portuguese, or (in contexts focused on one of the modern languages) Old Galician, Old Portuguese, Medieval Galician or Medieval Portuguese, was a West Iberian Romance language spoken in the Middle Ages, in the northwest area of the Iberian Peninsula. It is both the ancestor language and historical period of development of modern Galician, Fala, Portuguese and Eonavian languages which maintain a high degree of mutual intelligibility.
Old Polish
extinct West Slavic language
West Saxon
dialect of Old English
Deylami
Extinct Iranian language of northern Iran
Middle Turkic
extinct Turkic language spoken in Central Asia from 9th to 15th centuries
Mercian
dialect