class="wikitable sortable"
!Language/dialect
!Family
!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction
!Ethnic group(s)
!Native to
!Notes |
Adhari
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="1600.00001"|1600s AD[{{cite web|url=https://iranicaonline.org/articles/azerbaijan-vii|title=AZERBAIJAN vii. The Iranian Language of Azerbaijan|publisher=Encyclopædia Iranica|access-date=2024-08-20}}]
|Azaris
|Iranian Azerbaijan
| |
Akkadian
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="100.00001"|100s AD[{{cite web|url=http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=akk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091225003429/http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=akk|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 December 2009|title=The Akkadian Language|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-08-22|quote=Survived until around 100 AD.}}]
|Akkadians
|Mesopotamia
| |
Ammonite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-500.00001"|500s BC[{{cite journal|author=Walter E. Aufrecht|date=May 1987|journal=Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research|number=266|pages=87|title=The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age. Kent P. Jackson. Review|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1356933|publisher=JSTOR|jstor=1356933 |access-date=9 October 2024}}]
|Ammonites
|northwestern Jordan
| |
Amorite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-2000.00001"|2nd millennium BC{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
|Amorites
|Levant
| |
Ancient Cappadocian
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD[{{cite book|first1=Eric|last1=Cooper|first2=Michael J.|last2=Decker|date=2012|page=14|title=Life And Society In Byzantine Cappadocia|quote=The echoes of native Cappadocian could be heard into the sixth century and perhaps beyond.|url=https://archive.org/details/life-and-society-in-byzantine-cappadocia-by-j.-eric-cooper-michael-j.-decker-auth.-z-lib.org|access-date=28 May 2025}}]
|Ancient Cappadocian speakers
|Anatolia
| |
Armazic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="100.00001"|100s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xrm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191212015126/http://multitree.org/codes/xrm|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 December 2019|title=Armazic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-04-16|quote=1st-2nd centuries AD.}}]
|Aramaic Caucasians
|South Caucasus
|Dialect of Aramaic |
Ashurian
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="1400.00001"|after 1300s AD[{{cite book |editor-last=Angold |editor-first=Michael |editor-link=Michael Angold |last=Micheau |first=Françoise |date=2006 |title=Eastern Christianity |series=The Cambridge History of Christianity |chapter=Eastern Christianities (eleventh to fourteenth century): Copts, Melkites, Nestorians and Jacobites |volume=5 |pages=391 |location=Cambridge, United Kingdom |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-81113-2 }}]
|People of Assur
|Upper Mesopotamia
| |
Carian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-200.00001"|200s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xcr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414043912/http://multitree.org/codes/xcr|url-status=dead|archive-date=14 April 2021|title=Carian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=7th to 3rd centuries BC.}}]
|Carians
|Caria
| |
Cimmerian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-620.00001"|620–580s BC[{{cite journal|last=Ivantchik|first=Askold|author-link=Askold Ivantchik|date=2001|title=The Current State of the Cimmerian Problem|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249601848|journal=Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia|volume=7|issue=3|pages=307–339|doi=10.1163/15700570152758043|access-date=30 March 2025|quote=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}}]
|Cimmerians
|West Asia
| |
Dadanitic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-500.00001"|second half of the first millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/index.php/13-scripts/36-dadanitic|title=Dadanitic|access-date=2024-05-10|quote=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.}}]
|Lihyanites
|Lihyan
| |
Daylami
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="1300.00001"|1300s AD[Mehdi Marashi, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Persian studies in North America: studies in honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Ibex Publishers, Inc., 1994, {{ISBN|0-936347-35-X}}, 9780936347356, p. 269.]
|Daylamites
|South Caspian Sea
| |
Dilmunite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-2000.00001"|First half of the second millennium BC[{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtzWAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA242|title=The Indian Ocean In Antiquity|editor=Julian Reade|author=Jean Jacques Glassner|chapter=Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha|page=242|isbn=9781136155314|date=2013-10-28|publisher=Routledge|quote=In short, the anthroponyms and the remnants of the language show that at the beginning of the second millennium the people of Dilmun was a Semitic one.}}]
|Arabs
|Dilmun
| |
Dumaitic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-600.00001"|600s BC[{{cite web|url=http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/index.php/13-scripts/37-dumaitic|title=Dumaitic|access-date=2024-05-10|quote=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.}}]
|Lihyanites
|Lihyan
| |
Eblaite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-3000.00001"|3rd millennium BC[{{cite web|title=Palaeosyrian|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xeb|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150110080920/http://multitree.org/codes/xeb|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 January 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=3rd Millenium BC.}}]
|Eblabites
|Ebla
| |
Edomite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-999.00001"|early half of 1st millennium BC[{{cite web|title=Edomite|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xdm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309165246/http://multitree.org/codes/xdm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.}}]
|Edomites
|southwest Jordan and southern Israel
| |
Elamite
|language isolate
|data-sort-value="-700.00001"|700s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/elx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402151642/http://multitree.org/codes/elx|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 April 2017|title=Elamite|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=3rd millennium BC - 8th Century BC.}}]
|Elamites
|Elam
| |
Eteocypriot
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="-300.00001"|300s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/ecy|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150217100336/http://multitree.org/codes/ecy|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 February 2015|title=Eteocypriot|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=6 August 2024|quote=An ancient language of Cyprus, up to 4th C BC.}}]
|Eteocypriots
|Cyprus
| |
Galatian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xga|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107190408/http://multitree.org/codes/xga|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 November 2019|title=Galatian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=Perhaps from the late 1st millenium BC, and spoken until the 6th century AD, according to Greek Historians.}}]
|Galatians
|Galatia
| |
Garachi
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=July 2024}}
|Garachi
|Azerbaijan
|Dialect of Domari |
Gutian
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=March 2024}}
|Guti
|Zagros Mountains?
| |
Hadramautic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xhd.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915020232/http://multitree.org/codes/xhd.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 September 2012|title=Hadramitic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=100 BC - 600 AD.}}]
|Hadramites
|Yemen, Oman and Saudi Arabia
| |
Hasaitic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="100.00001"|100s AD[{{cite web|url=http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/index.php/13-scripts/38-hasaitic|title=Hasaitic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-05-10|quote=They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.}}]
|Arabs
|Al-Ahsa Oasis
| |
Hatran
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="240.00001"|240 AD{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}
|People of Hatra
|Upper Mesopotamia
| |
Hattian
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="-2000.00001"|2nd millennium BC[{{cite web|title=Hatti|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xht |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309165343/http://multitree.org/codes/xht|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=2nd Millennium BC.}}]
|Hattians
|Anatolia
| |
Himyaritic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="1000.00001"|by 1000s AD[{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/7131364|title=The "Ḥimyaritic" Language in pre-Islamic Yemen A Critical Re-evaluation|quote=Its attribution to the tribe of Ḥimyar led to the designation of this idiom as“Ḥimyaritic”. According to the sources, this language must have been in use in the Yemeni highlands up to the Xth century and even later,|website=Academia.edu|last=Stein|first=Peter|date=2008|page=203}}]
|Himyarite tribal confederacy
|Yemen
| |
Hismaic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="300.00001"|300s AD[{{cite web|url=http://krc.orient.ox.ac.uk/ociana/index.php/13-scripts/39-hismaic|title=Hismaic|access-date=2024-05-10|quote=i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD}}]
|Arabs
|Ḥismā
| |
Hittite
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-1180.00001"|1180s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/hit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160810012813/http://multitree.org/codes/hit|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 August 2016|title=Hittite|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=1500–1180 BC}}]
|Hittites
|Anatolia
| |
Hurrian
|Hurro-Urartian
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xhu|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190717025952/http://multitree.org/codes/xhu|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 July 2019|publisher=LINGUIST List|title=Hurrian|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=2nd - Ist Millennium BC.}}]
|Hurrians
|Mitanni
| |
Isaurian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD[{{cite web|first=Noel|last= Lenski|url=https://www.academia.edu/2490104|title=Assimilation and Revolt in the Territory of Isauria, From the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD|access-date=2024-08-13|quote=Beginning in the middle of the second millenniumBC the region had fallen under the control of the Hittite empire and from that point until at least the end of the sixth century AD its inhabitants continued to speak a branch of Hittite now called Luwian.|publisher=Academia.edu}}]
|Isaurians
|Isauria
| |
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="1200.00001"|1200 AD{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}
|Babylonian Jews
|Babylon
| |
Judeo-Golpaygani
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=August 2024}}
|Persian Jews
|Golpayegan
| |
Kalasmaic
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-1200.00001"|1200s BC[{{cite book|last1=Schwemer|first1=Daniel|title=Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi|volume=71|date=2024|publisher=Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur|location=Mainz|page=XIX|language=de}}]
|Luwic people
|Anatolia
| |
Karapapakh
|Turkic
|data-sort-value="1900.00001"|1900s{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}
|Karapapakhs
|South Caucasus
| |
Kaskian
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="-700.00001"|700s BC[{{cite web|url=https://dspace.tsu.ge/server/api/core/bitstreams/ac38332f-6c45-46b8-9751-701a670e7307/content|title=Historical Memory about Migration of the Kaskians in Western Georgia|access-date=2024-05-06|quote=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.|page=335}}]
|Kaskians
|Northeastern Anatolia and Colchis
| |
Kassite
|Hurro-Urartian ?
|data-sort-value="-300.00001"|300s BC[{{cite web|title=Kassites|url=https://www.crystalinks.com/kassites.html|website=Crystalinks|access-date=15 August 2024|quote=Kassite (Cassite) was a language spoken by Kassites in northern Mesopotamia from approximately the 18th to the 4th century BC.}}]
|Kassites
|Babylon
| |
Kilit
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="1950.00001"|after 1950s[{{cite book|last=Stilo|first=D. L.|date=1994|title=Phonological systems in contact in Iran and Transcaucasia|publisher=Ibex Publishers, Inc.|page=90|quote=As to the present status of Kilit, it is a moribund, or more likely extinct, language mentioned and transcribed two or three times by nonlinguists from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The last known data collected was in the 1950s when speakers numbered only a few old men using it probably only as a trade jargon or secret language.}}]
|Talysh of Kilit
|Nakhchivan
| |
Lebanese Aramaic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s{{citation needed|date=June 2025}}
|Arameans
|Mount Lebanon
| |
Lullubian
|Hurro-Urartian ?
|data-sort-value="-600.00001"|600s BC{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|Lullubi
|Lullubi Kingdom
| |
Luwian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millennium BC[{{cite web|title=Hieroglyphic Luwian|url=http://multitree.org/codes/hlu|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141229003408/http://multitree.org/codes/hlu|url-status=dead|archive-date=29 December 2014|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=2nd-1st Millennium BC.}}]
|Luwians
|Anatolia and northern Syria
| |
Lycaonian
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="50.00001"|after 50 AD[{{cite web|title=Topical Bible: Lycaonia|website=Bible Hub|url=https://biblehub.com/topical/l/lycaonia.htm|access-date=2024-09-23}}]
|Lycaonians
|Lycaonia
| |
Lycian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-200.00001"|200s BC[{{cite web|title=Lycian|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xlc|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150309165323/http://multitree.org/codes/xlc|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 March 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=500 BC to about 200 BC.}}]
|Lycians
|Lycia and Lycaonia
| |
Lydian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-200.00001"|200s BC[{{cite web|title=Lydian|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xld|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150101175609/http://multitree.org/codes/xld|url-status=dead|archive-date=1 January 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=8th to ? 3rd century BC.}}]
|Lydians
|Lydia
| |
Malatia
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=February 2025}}
|Armenians
|Adıyaman
|Dialect of Armenian |
Mamluk-Kipchak
|Turkic
|data-sort-value=1516.00001"|after 1516 AD[{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344715953|title=STATUS OF THE KYPCHAK LANGUAGE IN MAMLUK EGYPT: LANGUAGE - BARRIER OR LANGUAGE - CONTACT?|page=59|author=Gulnar Nadirova Logo|access-date=25 April 2024|quote=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.}}]
|Mamluk
|Syria
| |
Mannaean
|Hurro-Urartian ?
|data-sort-value="-600.00001"|600s BC{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
| Mannaeans
|Mannaea
| |
Median
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value=100.00001"|100s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xme|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412115558/http://multitree.org/codes/xme|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 April 2019|title=Median|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-13|quote=500 BC - 100 AD.}}]
|Medes
|Persia
| |
Milyan
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/imy|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917183949/http://multitree.org/codes/imy|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 September 2021|publisher=LINGUIST List|title=Milyan|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=First millennium BC.}}]
|Milyans
|Milyas
| |
Minaean
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/inm.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826012810/http://multitree.org/codes/inm.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 August 2012|title=Minaic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-05-20|quote=100 BC - 600 AD.}}]
|Minaeans
|Yemen
| |
Minoan
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="-1450.00001"|1450s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/omn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009043646/http://multitree.org/codes/omn|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 October 2019|title=Minoan|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=Circa 1800 and 1450 BC.}}]
|Minoans
|Crete and Ugarit
| |
Mitanni Indo-Aryan
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value=-1300.00001"|after 1300s BC[{{cite book|date=31 December 1996|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnY0KYbJC6wC&q=aryan|title=History of Humanity: From the Third Millennium to the Seventh Century B.C.|page=196|publisher=UNESCO|isbn=978-92-3-102811-3|access-date=20 October 2024}}]
|Indo-Aryan peoples
|Mitanni
| |
Mlaḥsô
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="1999.00001"|1999[{{cite web|url=https://www.usek.edu.lb/Content/Files/CSR/RCMME/20140801RCMMENeoAramaic.pdf|title=The Neo-Aramaic Languages|quote=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|access-date=2024-05-08}}]
|Syriac Orthodox Christians
|Mlahsô and Qamishli
| |
Moabite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-999.00001"|early half of 1st millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/obm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210303085724/http://multitree.org/codes/obm|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 March 2021|title=Moabite|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.}}]
|Moabites
|Moab
| |
Mycenaean Greek
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-1200.00001"|1200s BC[{{cite web|title=FROM PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TO MYCENAEAN GREEK:A PHONOLOGICAL STUDY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240512013436/https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/105223994/From_Proto_Indo_European_to_Mycenaean_Greek_A_Phonological_Study_2_fin-libre.pdf?1692789315=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DFrom_Proto_Indo_European_to_Mycenaean_Gr.pdf&Expires=1715480334&Signature=TeKFtz9EIeDWFhhpHXfi7il5nK-7RO7yD0kONPHQsJ99aD4O7PFjAGzzm2l3wLlCT2Mgifon6Wjsl0AUoM5P02LbP02VlUyxSYXZrzbchsOD5iQD5gletwvXV9q1sfKWaX0-tnW0C0iBgPW~ST4gPmKMovML8SQPYZvzRYkyJW4D3oxQFcUP5c1Ypi96N~nmFvjvPRopyNMeaKokaMtKGLrZiMjvrIlHU9BcKLsLcKlvzvhjhdvaiR1XIdxt3mTyAGVNm1WcnO1wiMsI-tZvKU8bfYO-2eUXNEMLY1zp0QxhXMnrRgIPOodTnG0fX3FOmNRCvgUQyknElgoKB~0A~g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA|url=https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/105223994/From_Proto_Indo_European_to_Mycenaean_Greek_A_Phonological_Study_2_fin-libre.pdf?1692789315=&response-content-disposition=inline%3B+filename%3DFrom_Proto_Indo_European_to_Mycenaean_Gr.pdf&Expires=1715480334&Signature=TeKFtz9EIeDWFhhpHXfi7il5nK-7RO7yD0kONPHQsJ99aD4O7PFjAGzzm2l3wLlCT2Mgifon6Wjsl0AUoM5P02LbP02VlUyxSYXZrzbchsOD5iQD5gletwvXV9q1sfKWaX0-tnW0C0iBgPW~ST4gPmKMovML8SQPYZvzRYkyJW4D3oxQFcUP5c1Ypi96N~nmFvjvPRopyNMeaKokaMtKGLrZiMjvrIlHU9BcKLsLcKlvzvhjhdvaiR1XIdxt3mTyAGVNm1WcnO1wiMsI-tZvKU8bfYO-2eUXNEMLY1zp0QxhXMnrRgIPOodTnG0fX3FOmNRCvgUQyknElgoKB~0A~g__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAJLOHF5GGSLRBV4ZA|url-status=live|archive-date=12 May 2024|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.}}]
|Mycenaean Greeks
|Mycenaean Greece
| |
Mysian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-0.00001"|0s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/yms|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220216014714/http://multitree.org/codes/yms|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2022|title=Mysian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=Before 1st Century AD.}}]
|Mysians
|Mysia
| |
Nabataean Arabic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="0.00001"|0s AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
|Nabataeans
|Levant, Sinai Peninsula and northwest Arabia
| |
Palaic
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-2000.00001"|2nd millennium BC[{{cite web|title=Palaic|url=http://multitree.org/codes/plq |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150222170051/http://multitree.org/codes/plq|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 February 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=2nd Millennium BC.}}]
|Palaic peoples
|Pala
| |
Palmyrene Aramaic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="274.00001"|after 274 AD[{{cite web|title=THE ARABIC WORDS IN PALMYRENE INSCRIPTIONS |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250135739 |access-date=11 May 2024 |quote=The earliest dated Palmyrene inscription is from the year 44 BC and the latest discovery has been dated to the year 274 AD.|website=ResearchGate}}]
|Palmyrenes
|Syrian Desert, primarily in Palmyra
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Philistine Canaanite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-700.00001"|700s BC[Frank Moore Cross, "A Philistine Ostracon From Ashkelon", BAR 22 (January–February 1996:64–65).]
|Philistines
|Philistia
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Philistine Indo-European
|unclassified, probably Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-900.00001"|900s BC[{{cite web|first1=Aren M.|last1=Maeir|first2=Louise A.|last2=Hitchcock|url=https://rest.neptune-prod.its.unimelb.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/7e1c22b0-0451-521b-9672-355460bc1495/content|title=The Appearance, Formation and Transformation of Philistine Culture: New Perspectives and New Finds|access-date=2024-08-13|quote=Thereafter, accordingly, over a period of approximately two centuries, this culture became increasingly influenced by the local, Levantine cultures until somewhere in the IA IIA (sometime after 1000 BCE), the unique, foreign attributes of the Philistine culture disappeared.}}]
|Philistines
|Philistia
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Phoenician
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/phn|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220204050356/http://multitree.org/codes/phn|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2022|title=Phoenician|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=2nd - 1st Millennium BC.}}]
|Phoenicians
|Canaan and Cyprus
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Phrygian
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="401.00001"|after 400 AD[{{cite book|last1=Swain|first1=Simon|title=Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word|last2=Adams|first2=J. Maxwell|last3=Janse|first3=Mark|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2002|isbn=0-19-924506-1|location=Oxford [Oxfordshire]|pages=252|quote=The last mention of Phrygian in use dates from the fifth century AD.}}]
|Phrygians
|Central Anatolia
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Pisidic
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-200.00001"|200s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xps|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811082342/http://multitree.org/codes/xps|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2011|title=Pisidian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=2nd-3rd century BC.}}]
|Pisidians
|Pisidia
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Qatabanian
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xqt.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120918113934/http://multitree.org/codes/xqt.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2012|title=Qatabanic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=100 BC - 600 AD.}}]
|People of Qataban
|Yemen
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Sabaic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD[{{cite web|title=Sabaic|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xsa|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150124203025/http://multitree.org/codes/xsa|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 January 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote= 100 BC - 600 AD.}}]
|Sabaeans
|Yemen
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Sabir
|Romance-based pidgin
|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s AD[{{Cite book|title=The Lingua Franca|publisher=Natalie Operstein|year=2021}}]
|Medieval traders and Crusaders
|Mediterranean Basin
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Safaitic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="200.00001"|200s AD[{{cite journal|url=https://www.academia.edu/40235915|title=Al-Jallad. 2020. The month ʾdr in Safaitic and the status of spirantization in "Arabian" Aramaic|website=Academia.edu|access-date=2024-04-29|quote=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.|last1=Al-Jallad|first1=Ahmad|doi=10.1163/17455227-BJA10013 }}]
|Northern Arabs
|Syria
| |
Samalian
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-730.00001"|730s BC[{{cite web|url=http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=qey|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090831103310/http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=qey|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 August 2009|title=The Sam'alian Language|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 July 2024|quote=820-730 BC.}}]
|People of Samʾal
|Samʾal
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Sidetic
|Indo-European
|data-sort-value="-200.00001"|200s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xsd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918163456/http://multitree.org/codes/xsd|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2021|title=Sidetic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=3rd - 2nd centuries BC.}}]
|People of Side
|Side
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South Gileadite
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-770.00001"|770s BC[{{cite web|author=ברוך מרגלית|title=עלילות בלעם בר-בעור מעמק סוכות|url=http://lib.cet.ac.il/Pages/item.asp?item=7595|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221023150/http://lib.cet.ac.il/Pages/item.asp?item=7595|archive-date=December 21, 2014|date=Oct 1998|url-status=dead|language=Hebrew|access-date=2024-08-20}}]
|People of Deir Alla
|Deir Alla
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Subarian
|Hurro-Urartian ?
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millenium BC{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}
|Subarians
|Subartu
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Sumerian
|language isolate
|data-sort-value="0.00001"|0s AD[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/sux|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627130707/http://multitree.org/codes/sux|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 June 2013|title=Sumerian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=The language continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language until the 1st century AD.}}]
|Sumerians
|Sumer and Akkad
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Sutean
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-1100.00001"|1100s BC{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}
|Suteans
|Levant and Mesopotamia
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Taymanitic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-499.00001"|500s BC[{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/27953337 |title=The Language of the Taymanitic Inscriptions and its Classification |quote= Therefore, at least part of the Taymanitic corpus can safely be dated to the second half of the 6th century BCE. |website=Academia.edu |access-date=2024-05-08 |last1=Kootstra-Ford |first1=Fokelien }}]
|Ancient North Arabian Arabs
|Tayma
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Thamudic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="267.00001"|after 267 AD[{{cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/18470301|title=Al-Jallad. 2018. The earliest stages of Arabic and its linguistic classification |access-date=2024-05-10|quote=These inscriptions are concentrated in northwest Arabia, and one occurs alongside a Nabataean tomb inscription dated to the year 267 CE.|website=Academia.edu|last1=Al-Jallad|first1=Ahmad}}]
|Thamud
|Kingdom of Thamud
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Trojan
|unclassified
|data-sort-value="-1300.00001"|c. 1300 BC
|Trojans
|Troy
| |
Ubykh
|Northwest Caucasian
|data-sort-value="1992.00001"|7 October 1992 AD[{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-SYou4fhWUgC&pg=PA33|date=1 January 1998|author-first=E. F. K.|author-last=Koerner|title=First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences|publisher=John Benjamins Publishing|isbn=978-90-272-4576-2|page=33}}]
|Ubykh
|Ubykhia
| |
Ugaritic
|Afroasiatic
|data-sort-value="-1300.00001"|1300s BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/uga|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322213913/http://multitree.org/codes/uga|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 March 2021|title=Ugaritic|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=15th to 13th Century BC.}}]
|People of Ugarit
|Levant
| |
Urartian
|Hurro-Urartian
|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millennium BC[{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xur|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310043712/http://multitree.org/codes/xur|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2021|title=Urartean|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=Ist Millennium BC.}}]
|Urarteans
|Urartu
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