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There are 175 languages listed. 19 from Central Asia, 27 from East Asia, 21 from South Asia, 23 from Southeast Asia, 22 from Siberia and 63 from West Asia.
This is an incomplete list. You can help by adding missing items, correcting wrong information and adding reliable sources. (March 2024)
1200 - 800 BC.
300 BC - 1000 AD.
13th century AD.
from the 13th century until the 19th century
István Varró, a member of the Jász-Cuman mission to the empress of Austria Maria Theresa and the known last speaker of the Cuman language, died in 1770.
This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.
time period:Fourth to fifth century c.E.
Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century
11th to 12th centuries AD.
6th - 12th century AD.
13th-14th century AD.
300 BC - 1000 AD.
9th - 14th Centuries AD.
An ancient language of Central Asia, spoken between the 7th and 13th centuries AD.
300 BC - 1000 AD.
100 BC - 1000 AD.
Andreev explains that 100 years ago there was an ancient Vanji language used by people of Vanj valley. He then provides as example that in 1925, when travelling to Vanj Valley, him and his travel companion met an old man who told that, when he was 11 years old, he was speaking Vanji language. Unfortunately, the old man could remember only 20-30 words, but even then, he was not sure if they were all correct.
... "Two ... Wot (Wotapuri - Katarqalai). Of the latter we can witness how the process of extinction has moved on inexorably in the course of the twentieth century. In the 1940's Morgenstierne reported that Wot was spoken in two villages in the Katar valley, one at Wotapuri at the confluence of the Pech river with the streams coming from the valley, one further up the valley in Katarqalai. 15 years later Budruss (1960) visited both villages found no speakers of the language in the lower village, Pashto having completely replaced it, and in the upper one only a few passive speakers who remember having spoken the language in their earlier years.
c. 7th - 10th centuries AD.
5th to 7th centuries AD.
Present state of the language: EXTINCT probably in the early 20th century, no exact date available
1st century to mid-8th century A.D.
916 - 1125 AD.
100 BC - 1000 AD.
c. 7th - 10th centuries AD.
Pazeh, an Austronesian language of Taiwan thought to have lost its last speaker in 2010.
the Khüis Tolgoi inscription must have been erected between 604 and 620 AD.
Siraya is a Formosan language spoken until the end of the 19th century by the indigenous Siraya people of Taiwan.
c. 11th - 16th centuries AD.
5th to 10th centuries AD.
7th - 10th century AD.
... The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921. The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931. The Akar-Bale of Ritchie's Archipelago, the Aka-Kede of Middle Andaman and the A-Pucikwar of South Andaman Island soon followed. By 1951, the census counted a total of only 23 Greater Andamanese and 10 Sentinelese. That means that just ten men, twelve women and one child remained of the Aka-Kora, Aka-Cari and Aka-Jeru tribes of Greater Andaman and only ten natives of North Sentinel Island ...
The inscriptions of Asoka - a king of the Maurya dynasty who reigned, based in his capital Pataliputra, from 268 to 232 BC over almost the whole of India - were engraved in rocks and pillars, in various local dialects.
The ingredients of group consciousness mentioned above were kept alive principally because the Sinhalese people had a literate culture starting from about the third century B.C.
... the Kharosthi script was used as a literary medium, that is, from the time of Asoka in the middle of the third century B.C. until about the third century A.D.
2500-1900 BC.
Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD, though it was probably spoken as early as the 5th century BC.
Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD...
The last speaker of the Leliali dialect died in 1989
Last speaker died in 1974.
c. 5th? - 12th century AD.
Reportedly the last speaker of Taman died in the 1990s.
...the language, along with its speakers, was lost in a gigantic volcanic eruption, the most cataclysmic in historic times in April 1815.
...that was spoken in Bidau, an eastern suburb of Dili, East Timor until the 1960s
Survived until the 18th century AD.
Survived until the 18th century AD.
Survived until perhaps the 18th century AD.
Present state of the language: EXTINCT since the late 18th century
Survived until middle of 19th century AD.
Unfortunately, Kuril Ainu, which is absolutely indispensable for the reconstruction, disappeared in the late 19th century with just few old documents left.
Mator or Motor was a Uralic language belonging to the group of Samoyedic languages, extinct since the 1840s.
Survived until perhaps 18th century.
including Kott/Assan, Arin, Pumpokol, all extinct between about 1800 and 1860
In 1994, Take Asai died at the age of 102. She was the last native speaker of Sakhalin Ainu
In January 1997 the last native speaker of the language, a woman named Vyie (Valentina Wye) died.
Southern Mansi, whose aboriginal territory covered a vast area including parts of easternmost Europe, is undoubtedly the Mansi language that was first to become extinct. When that happened can only be estimated on the basis of the records of Kannisto and others, which show that shift to both Russian and Siberian Tatar was progressing rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century, leading to the conclusion that the language probably survived until the middle decades.
Although we do not know the time of the death of the last speaker of Western Mansi, it does indeed seem certain that there were none left by the end of the twentieth century
18th - 20th century AD.
Yurats was another Samoyedic language replaced by the eastward advance of Tundra Nenets, extinct during the nineteenth century, with meager documentation
6th-8th Centuries AD.
Survived until around 100 AD.
The echoes of native Cappadocian could be heard into the sixth century and perhaps beyond.
1st-2nd centuries AD.
7th to 3rd centuries BC.
The development of the Classical tradition on the subject of the Cimmerians after their disappearance from the historical arena, no later than the very end of the 7th or very beginning of the 6th century BC
Dadanitic was the alphabet used by the inhabitants of the ancient oasis of Dadan, probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BC.
According to the Assyrian annals Dūma was the seat of successive queens of the Arabs, some of whom were also priestesses, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC.
3rd Millenium BC.
Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.
3rd millennium BC - 8th Century BC.
Perhaps from the late 1st millenium BC, and spoken until the 6th century AD, according to Greek Historians.
100 BC - 600 AD.
They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.
2nd Millennium BC.
i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD
1500–1180 BC
2nd - Ist Millennium BC.
The Kaška first appear on the territory of the Hittite empire in the 15th c. B.C. and are mentioned till 8th c. B.C.
2nd-1st Millennium BC.
500 BC to about 200 BC.
8th to ? 3rd century BC.
Even towards the end of the Mamluk period, during the reign of the last sultan al-Ghawri (1501-1516), the Mamluk, called Asanbay min Sudun, copied the religious Hanbali tract of Abu al-Layth in Kypchak language for the royal library.
500 BC - 100 AD.
First millennium BC.
100 BC - 600 AD.
Circa 1800 and 1450 BC.
Ibrahim Ḥanna was the last speaker of the Mlaḥso language, as the village was destroyed in 1915 during the Armenian genocide. He died in 1999 in Qāmišli in Syria
Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.
... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
Before 1st Century AD.
It continued to be spoken until the 15th century AD, developing ultimately into the Turkish varieties of later years.
Although the newly created works lacked some of the rich connotations of the older lexicon, modern Turkish developed as a fertile literary language as prose writers and poets created powerful works in this new idiom, especially after 1950.
2nd Millennium BC.
The earliest dated Palmyrene inscription is from the year 44 BC and the latest discovery has been dated to the year 274 AD.
2nd - 1st Millennium BC.
8th century BC to 2nd century AD.
2nd-3rd century BC.
100 BC - 600 AD.
100 BC - 600 AD.
A minority of dated texts suggest that the practice of carving Safaitic inscriptions spanned at least from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
3rd - 2nd centuries BC.
The language continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language until the 1st century AD.
Therefore, at least part of the Taymanitic corpus can safely be dated to the second half of the 6th century BCE.
These inscriptions are concentrated in northwest Arabia, and one occurs alongside a Nabataean tomb inscription dated to the year 267 CE.
15th to 13th Century BC.
Ist Millennium BC.