List of extinct languages of Asia

{{Short description|Asian extinct languages}}

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{{More citations needed|date=March 2024}}

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{{Language Endangerment status}}

This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant.

There are 224 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia, 44 from East Asia, 20 from South Asia, 42 from Southeast Asia, 27 from Siberia and 78 from West Asia.

Central Asia

class="wikitable sortable"

!Language/dialect

!Family

!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction

!Ethnic group(s)

!Native to

!Notes

Avestan

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="-800.00001"|800s BC{{cite web|title=Avestan|url=http://multitree.org/codes/ave|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140416075227/http://multitree.org/codes/ave|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 April 2014|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=1200 - 800 BC.}}

|Avestan people

|Central Asia

|Used as scriptural language of Zoroastrianism

Bactrian

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1000.00001"|1000s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xbc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003030016/http://multitree.org/codes/xbc |url-status=dead|archive-date=3 October 2021|title=Bactrian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-08|quote=300 BC - 1000 AD.}}

|Bactrians

|Bactria

|

Bulgar

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1200.00001"|1200s AD{{cite web|title=Volga-Bolgarian|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xbo|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150204115321/http://multitree.org/codes/xbo |url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=25 April 2024|quote=13th century AD.}}

|Bulgars

|Pontic–Caspian steppe

|

Cuman

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1700.00001"|1770 AD{{cite book|last=Melnyk|first=Mykola|date=2022|title=Byzantium and the Pechenegs|quote=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.}}

|Cumans

|Cumania

|

Fergana Kipchak

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1920.00001"|1920s{{cite web|first=Robert|last=Lindsay|url=https://md.teyit.org/file/mutual-intelligibility-among-the-turkic.pdf|title=Mutual Intelligibility Among the Turkic Languages|access-date=2024-04-07|quote=This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.}}

|Fergana Kipchak speakers

|Fergana Valley

|

Gorgani

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1500.00001"|1500-1700s AD{{cite book|last=Borjian|first=Habib|date=2008|title=The Extinct Language of Gurgān: Its Sources and Origins|page=681|quote=Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century}}

|Semnani

|Gorgan

|

Hunnic

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="400.00001"|400s AD{{cite book|last1=Waldman|first1=Carl|last2=Mason|first2=Catherine|date=2006|title=Encyclopedia of European Peoples|page=393|quote=time period:Fourth to fifth century c.E.}}

|Huns

|Eurasian Steppe

|

Inku

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1990.00001"|1990s{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/jat|title=Inku|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014181238/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/jat|archive-date=2019-10-14|url-status=dead|quote=Last speakers probably survived into the 1990s.}}

|Jalali, Pikraj, Shadibaz, Vangawala

|Afghanistan

|

Kambojan

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=August 2024}}

|Kambojas

|Kamboja Kingdom

|

Khazar

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1100.00001"|1100s AD{{cite web|title=Khazar|url=http://multitree.org/codes/zkz|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150204115307/http://multitree.org/codes/zkz|url-status=dead|archive-date=4 February 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=24 April 2024|quote=6th - 12th century AD.}}

|Khazars

|Khazar Khaganate

|

Khwarezmian

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1000.00001"|1000s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xco|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513180927/http://multitree.org/codes/xco|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 May 2021|title=Chorasmian|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-08|quote=300 BC - 1000 AD.}}

|Khwarezmians

|Khwarazm

|

Moghol

|Mongolic

|data-sort-value="2013.00001"|2013{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Moghol|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/MOGHOL|access-date=2025-01-09|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=status extinct since 2013}}

|Moghols

|Herat

|

Nam

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=September 2024}}

|Nam speakers

|Central Asia

|

Pahlavani

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=August 2024}}

|Pahlavani people

|Chakhansur District

|

Parthian

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1000.00001"|1000s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xpr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224015235/http://multitree.org/codes/xpr|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 February 2021|publisher=LINGUIST List|title=Parthian|access-date=2024-03-05|quote=300 BC - 1000 AD.}}

|Parthians

|Parthia

|

Sarghulami

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="2014.00001"|by 2014{{cite book|last1=Kakar|first1=Hasan Kawun|title=Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan|date=2014|publisher=University of Texas Press|isbn=9780292729001|edition=5}}

|Sarghulami

|Badakhshan

|

Vanji

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1925.00001"|after 1925{{cite book|last1=Dagikhudo|first1=Dagiev|last2=Carole|first2=Faucher|date=2018|title= Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia |quote=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.}}

|Vanj people

|Emirate of Bukhara

|

Wotapuri-Katarqalai

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1960.00001"|1960{{cite book|last=Brenzinger|first=Matthias|date=2007|title=Language Diversity Endangered|quote=... "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.}}

|Wotapuri-Katarqalai speakers

|Afghanistan

|

East Asia

class="wikitable sortable"

!Language/dialect

!Family

!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction

!Ethnic group(s)

!Native to

!Notes

Alchuka

|Tungusic

|data-sort-value="1980.00001"|1980s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Alchuka

|Heilongjiang

|

Babuza

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1977.00001"|by 1977{{cite book|last=Marsh|first=Mikell Alan|date=1977|title=FAVORLANG-PAZEH-SAISIAT: A PUTATIVE FORMOSAN SUBGROUP.|page=2|quote=Taokas and Luilang might also be associated with this FPS subgroup, but available data on these now-extinct languages are too limited to determine this with any surety.}}

|Babuza and Taokas

|western coast of Taiwan

|

Baekje

|Koreanic

|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/pkc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220706024605/http://multitree.org/codes/pkc|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 July 2022|title=Paekche|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-07|quote=5th to 7th centuries AD.}}

|Baekje

|Baekje

|

Bailang

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="300.00001"|300s AD{{cite journal|author=Laurent Sagart|title=Questions of method in Chinese-tibeto-burman comparison|journal=Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale |date=1995|volume=24|number=2|pages=245–255|doi=10.3406/clao.1995.1477 |url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/clao_0153-3320_1995_num_24_2_1477|access-date=25 November 2024}}

|Bailang speakers

|Sichuan

|

Bala

|Tungusic

|data-sort-value="1982.00001"|1982 AD{{cite web|author=Andreas Hölzl|date=2020|url=https://www.academia.edu/45628358|page=163|title=Bala (China) – Language Snapshot|publisher=Academia.edu|access-date=2024-10-09|quote=The Bala language is said to have become extinct in 1982,}}

|Bala

|Zhangguangcai Range

|

Balhae

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="_" |{{Data missing|date=October 2024}}

|Balhae speakers

|Balhae

|

Basay

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1940.00001"|1940-1960s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Qauqaut and Basay

|Northern Taiwan

|

Buyeo

|Koreanic?

|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD{{cite web|author=Martine Robbeets|title=Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic|editor=Oxford University Press|date=2020|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345843382|access-date=8 September 2024|page=6}}

|Yemaek

|Manchuria

|

Chinese Kyakala

|Tungusic

|data-sort-value="1980.00001"|1980s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Kyakala

|Northeastern China

|

Di

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="601.00001"|after 500s AD{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

|Di

|western China

|

Dingling

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="601.00001"|after 600s AD{{citation needed|date=December 2024}}

|Dingling

|northern China

|

Favorlang

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1740.00001"|1740-1760s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Babuza

|Taiwan

|

Gaya

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD

|Kara tribal confederation

|Gaya confederacy

|

Goguryeo

|Koreanic?

|data-sort-value="700.00001"|700s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/zkg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190902231949/http://multitree.org/codes/zkg|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 September 2019|title=Koguryo|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-04-25|quote=1st century to mid-8th century A.D.}}

|Goguryeo people

|Manchuria and Korea

|

Jie

|either Yeniseian or Turkic

|data-sort-value="350.00001"|after 350 AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Jie people

|Northern China

|

Kiautschou German pidgin

|German-based pidgin

|data-sort-value="1901.00001"|1900-1920s{{cite web|url=https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/6905/file/Engelberg_Stolberg_The_Influence_of_German_2017.pdf|first1=Péter|last1=Maitz|first2=Craig A.|last2=Volker|title=Language Contact in the German Colonies: Papua New Guinea and beyond|date=2017|access-date=2024-07-14|quote=Kiautschou Pidgin German, which was spoken in the German colony Kiautschou on the coast of China in the early 20th century.}}

|German-educated Chinese

|Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory

|

Khitan

|Para-Mongolic?

|data-sort-value="1125.00001"|1125 AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/zkt|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602134211/http://multitree.org/codes/zkt|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 June 2012|title=Kitan|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-08|quote=916 - 1125 AD.}}

|Khitan people

|northeastern China, southeastern Mongolia and eastern Siberia

|

Khoton

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s AD{{cite book|last=Finke|first=Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wxIAwAAQBAJ&q=khoton+|title=Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives|publisher=Curzon|year=1999|isbn=0-7007-1115-5|editor-last=Svanberg|editor-first=Ingvar|location=London|pages=109|chapter=The Kazaks of western Mongolia|quote=Khoton are a small Muslim minority of 6,000. They are settled in Taryalan-sum in the western part of the Uvs-aymag and are thought to have spoken a Turkic language up until the nineteenth century.}}

|Khotons

|Inner Mongolia and Mongolia

|

Kulon

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="_" |{{Data missing|date=March 2024}}

|Kulon speakers

|Taiwan

|

Lewu

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1985.00001"|1985{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

|Yao

|Yunnan

|

Longjia

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1985.00001"|possibly by 2011Zhao Weifeng [赵卫峰]. 2011. History of the Bai people of Guizhou [贵州白族史略]. Yinchuan, China: Ningxia People's Press [宁夏人民出版社]. {{ISBN|9787227046783}}

|Longjia

|Guizhou

|

Luilang

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1977.00001"|by 1977

|Ketagalan

|Banqiao District

|

Luren

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1960.00001"|1960sGuizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer [贵州省志. 民族志] (2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House [貴州民族出版社].

|Luren

|Guizhou

|

Mahan

|Koreanic?

|data-sort-value="600.00001"|600s AD

|Mahan people

|Mahan confederacy

|

Okjeo

|Koreanic?

|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD

|Okjeo people

|Okjeo

|

Old Yue

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="0.00001"|0s AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Nanyue

|Southern China

|

Papora-Hoanya

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2009.00001"|by 2009{{cite web|url=http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=ppu|title=Papora-Hoanya|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304081441/http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=ppu|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}

|Papora and Hoanya

|Taiwan

|

Pazeh

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2010.00001"|2010{{cite web|url=https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1056&context=afla|title=The prosodic structure of Pazeh|access-date=2024-05-21|quote=Pazeh, an Austronesian language of Taiwan thought to have lost its last speaker in 2010.}}

|Kazabu and Pazeh people

|Taiwan

|12 speakers of Kaxabu dialect

Rouran

|Mongolic

|data-sort-value="620.00001"|after 620 AD{{cite journal|date=7 May 2020|title=Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West|quote=the Khüis Tolgoi inscription must have been erected between 604 and 620 AD.|journal=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/ehs.2020.18 |last1=Savelyev |first1=Alexander |last2=Jeong |first2=Choongwon |volume=2 |pmid=35663512 |pmc=7612788 }}

|Rouran

|Rouran Khaganate (Mongolia and Northern China)

|

Siraya

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s AD{{cite web|url=http://www.lexvo.org/page/iso639-3/fos|title=iso639-3/fos|access-date=2024-05-21|quote=Siraya is a Formosan language spoken until the end of the 19th century by the indigenous Siraya people of Taiwan.}}

|Siraya

|Taiwan

|

Taivoan

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1870.00001"|1870-1890s AD{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tvx|title=Taivoan|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703124726/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/tvx|archive-date=2019-07-03|url-status=dead|quote=The last known speaker died near the end of the 1800s.}}

|Taivoan people

|Taiwan

|

Tamna

|Japonic?

|data-sort-value="1400.00001"|1400s AD{{cite web|title=Origins of the Japanese Language|publisher=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics|page=1,6|access-date=30 September 2024|date=2017|author=Alexander Vovin|url=https://www.academia.edu/35280086}}

|Tamnans

|Tamna

|

Tangut

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1500.00001"|1500s AD{{cite web|title=Tangut|url=http://multitree.org/codes/txg|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150406065647/http://multitree.org/codes/txg|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 April 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=25 April 2024|quote=c. 11th - 16th centuries AD.}}

|Tangut

|Northwestern China

|

Tocharian A

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="850.00001"|850 AD{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Tocharian A|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/TOCHARIAN_A|access-date=2025-02-25|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=extinct since 850}}

|Tocharians

|Tarim Basin

|

Tocharian B

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="850.00001"|850 AD{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Tocharian B|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/TOCHARIAN_B|access-date=2025-02-25|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=extinct since 850}}

|Tocharians

|Kucha

|

Tocharian C

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="850.00001"|850 AD{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Common Tocharian|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/COMMON_TOCHARIAN|access-date=2025-02-25|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=extinct since 850}}

|Tocharians

|Tarim Basin

|

Tuyuhun

|Para-Mongolic?

|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD{{cite journal|author=Alexander Vovin|date=December 2015|journal=Journal of Sino-Western Communications|volume=7|issue=2|pages=157–166|title=Some notes on the Tuyuhun (吐谷渾) language: in the footsteps of Paul Pelliot|url=https://www.academia.edu/24403941|publisher=Academia.edu|access-date=8 September 2024}}

|Tuyuhun people

|Tuyuhun

|

Tuoba

|Para-Mongolic?

|data-sort-value="400.00001"|400s AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Tuoba

|Northern China and Mongolia

|

|Wuhuan

|Para-Mongolic?

|data-sort-value="200.00001"|200s AD{{cite book|last=Shimunek|first=Andrew|title=Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: a Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology|publisher=Harrassowitz Verlag|year=2017|isbn=978-3-447-10855-3|publication-place=Wiesbaden|oclc=993110372}}

|Wuhuan

|Inner Mongolia

|

|Wusun

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="500.0001"|after 5th century AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Wusun

|Qilian Mountains and Dunhuang

|

Xiongnu

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="100.00001"|100s AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Xiongnu

|Xiongnu Empire

|

|Xianbei

|Para-Mongolic?

|data-sort-value="200.00001"|200s AD{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Xianbei

|Xianbei state

|

Ye-Maek

|Koreanic

|data-sort-value="500.00001"|500s AD

|Yemaek

|Manchuria and Southern Korea

|

Yokohamese

|Japanese based pidgin

|data-sort-value="1870.00001"|1870-1890s{{cite journal|first=Aya|last=Inoue|date=2006|page=55|title=Grammatical Features of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese: Common Characteristics of Restricted Pidgins|quote=A pidginized variety of Japanese called Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo evolved during the reign of Emperor Meiji from 1868 to 1912, and largely disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century.|journal=University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa|url=https://www2.hawaii.edu/~ainoue/Inoue%202006%20JK%2015.pdf|access-date=19 August 2024}}

|Western and Chinese traders

|Yokohama

|

Zhang-Zhung

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="900.00001"|900s AD{{cite web|title=Zhang-zhung|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xzh|archive-url=https://archive.today/20150119211340/http://multitree.org/codes/xzh|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 January 2015|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=25 April 2024|quote=7th - 10th century AD.}}

|Zhangzhung people

|western Tibet

|

South Asia

class="wikitable sortable"

!Language/dialect

!Family

!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction

!Ethnic group(s)

!Native to

!Notes

Ahom

|Kra–Dai

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s

|Ahoms

|Assam

Angami Naga Sign Language

|language isolate

|data-sort-value="1921.00001"|after 1921

|Angami Nagas

|Nagaland

|

Ashokan Prakrit

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="-232.00001"|232 BC{{cite book|first1=George|last1=Cardona|first2=Dhanesh K. |last2=Jain|date=2003|page=164|title=The Indo-Aryan Languages|quote=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.}}

|Ashoka

|Maurya Empire

|

Bengali Portuguese Creole

|Portuguese creole

|data-sort-value="1910.00001"|early 20th century{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

|Bengali Portuguese Creole speakers

|India and Bangladesh

|

Bombay Portuguese Creole

|Portuguese creole

|{{Data missing|date=January 2025}}

|Bombay Portuguese Creole speakers

|Mumbai

Chakpa

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1950"|since the 1950sMoseley (2010), p. 203.

|Chakpa speakers

|Manipur

|

Cochin Portuguese Creole

|Portuguese creole

|data-sort-value="2010.80001"|20 August 2010{{cite web|date=28 October 2010|title=The Death of an Indian-born Language|url=https://openthemagazine.com/art-culture/the-death-of-an-indian-born-language/|access-date=7 March 2024|website=Open Magazine}}

|Cochin Portuguese Creole speakers

|Kochi

|

Dura

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="2008.00001"|August 2008{{cite web|date=January 15, 2008|title=The last of Nepal's Dura speakers|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7189898.stm|access-date=7 March 2024|website=BBC}}

|Dura

|Nepal

|

Gandhari

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="200.00001"|200s AD{{cite web|url=https://nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=17180&item_no=1&attribute_id=17&file_no=1|title=KHAROSTHI MANUSCRIPTS: A WINDOW ON GANDHARAN BUDDHISM|access-date=2024-05-13|quote=... 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.}}

|Gandhari people

|Gandhara

|

Harappan

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="-1900.00001"|1900s BC{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xiv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190624192224/http://multitree.org/codes/xiv|url-status=dead|archive-date=24 June 2019|title=Indus Valley Language|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-06-07|quote=2500-1900 BC.}}

|Harappan people

|Indus River

|

Judeo-Urdu

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1700.00001"|1700s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Baghdadi Jews

|Mumbai and Kolkata

|

Lubanki

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=March 2024}}

|Labana

|Punjab

|

Malaryan

|Dravidian

|data-sort-value="1996.00001"|by 1996{{cite web|url=http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=mjq|title=Malaryan|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304203923/http://archive.ethnologue.com/16/show_language.asp?code=mjq|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}

|Malaryan speakers

|Kerala

|

Moran

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1931.00001"|by 1931{{cite journal|last1=Jacquesson|first1=François|translator-last=van Breugel|translator-first=Seino|year=2017|title=The linguistic reconstruction of the past The case of the Boro-Garo languages|journal=Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area|volume=40|issue=1|pages=108|doi=10.1075/ltba.40.1.04van|quote=A second more dramatic example is P.R. Gurdon’s 1904 article 'The Morans' in the same journal. ... The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931.}}

|Morans

|Assam

|

Nagarchal

|Dravidian

|data-sort-value="1981.00001"|1981{{e25|nbg|Nagarchal}}

|Nagarchi

|Central India

|

Paishachi

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="900.00001"|900s AD{{cite web|url=http://www.multitree.org/codes/qpp.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190606202244/http://www.multitree.org/codes/qpp.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 June 2019|title=Paisaci Prakrit|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-12|quote=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.}}

|Paishachi people

|North India

|

Rangas

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value=1900.00001"|after 1900-1920s{{cite journal|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265199702|title=Endangered Languages of South Asia|page=303|author=George van Driem|journal= Handbook of Endangered Languages|editor=Matthias Brenzinger|access-date=20 October 2024|date=May 2007|quote=Rangkas was recorded in the Western Himalayas as recently as the beginning of the 20th century, but is now extinct.}}

|Rangkas people

|Uttarakhand

|

Shauraseni Prakrit

|Indo-European

|data-sort-value="1000.00001"|1000s AD{{cite web|url=http://www.lexvo.org/page/iso639-3/psu|title=iso639-3/psu|access-date=2024-06-23|quote=Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD...}}

|Medieval Indians

|Medieval India

|

Tolcha

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1950"|since the 1950sMoseley (2010), p. 201.

|Tolcchas

|Niti Valley

|Dialect of Rongpo

Ullatan

|Dravidian

|data-sort-value="1991.00001"|1991{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ull|title=Ullatan|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080208181816/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=ull|archive-date=2008-02-08|url-status=dead}}

|Ulladan

|India

|

Southeast Asia

class="wikitable sortable"

!Language/dialect

!Family

!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction

!Ethnic group(s)

!Native to

!Notes

Ata

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2001.00001"|2001-2007{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/atm|title=Ata|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520112640/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/atm|archive-date=2013-05-20|url-status=dead|quote=2 (Wurm 2000). In 1973, only a few families of speakers were reported. Probably extinct (Wurm 2007).}}

|Ata speakers

|Negros

Bale

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1940.00001"|1930-1950s

|Bale

|Ritchie's Archipelago, Havelock Island and Neil Island

|

Bea

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1931.00001"|1931{{Citation|title=Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language|author=George van Driem|date=2001|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-12062-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fiavPYCz4dYC|quote=... 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 ...}}

|Bea

|western Andaman Strait and the northern and western coast of South Andaman

|

Bo

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="2010.20001"|January 26, 2010{{cite web|date=5 February 2010|title=Language lost as last member of Andaman tribe dies|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7161422/Language-lost-as-last-member-of-Andaman-tribe-dies.html|access-date=7 March 2024|website=The Daily Telegraph}}

|Bo

|west central coast of the North Andaman and on the North Reef Island

|Dialect of Northern Andamanese

Cari

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="2020.00001"|April 4, 2020{{cite web |date=April 30, 2020|title=Remembering Licho, the Last Speaker of the Sare Language|url=https://terralingua.org/2020/04/30/remembering-licho-the-last-speaker-of-sare-a-great-andamanese-language/|access-date=7 March 2024|website=Terralingua}}

|Cari

|north coast of North Andaman and on Landfall Island

|Dialect of Northern Andamanese

Dicamay Agta

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1957.00001"|1957-1974 {{cite web|page=98|first=Jason William|last=Lobel|url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115050949/http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 November 2022|title=Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction|access-date=2024-08-14|quote=SIL linguist Richard Roe contacted this group in 1957 and took a word list of 291 words. They lived on the Dicamay River on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela. Roe told me that there was only one family there then. In November 1974, after talking with Roe and with a copy of his wordlist in hand, I went to Jones to see if I could find the Agta who spoke this language. I was unable to find them. We talked to many Filipinos in the area, but they all said they had not seen any Negritos for several years. Some people whispered to me that migrant Ilokano homesteaders had killed a number of the Agta a few years ago.}}

|Aeta

|Luzon

Great Andamanese koiné

|Mixed Khora–Bo–Jeru–Sare on a Jeru base

|data-sort-value="2009.00001"|2009{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/gac|title=Great Andamanese, Mixed|work=Ethnologue}}

|Jeru

|Strait Island

|

Hoti

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2007.00001"|by 2007 AD{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hti/|title=Hoti|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-11-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305082907/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hti/|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=dead|quote=No known L1 speakers (Wurm 2007).}}

|Hoti speakers

|Maluku Islands

Hpon

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1990.00001"|1990s{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hpo|title=Hpon|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923025856/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/hpo|archive-date=2019-09-23|url-status=dead|quote=Last known speaker survived into the 1990s}}

|Hpon speakers

|Myanmar

Hukumina

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2024.00001"|by 2024{{cite web|title=11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry|url=https://jakartaglobe.id/news/11-indigenous-languages-declared-extinct-education-ministry|access-date=14 September 2024|website=Jakarta Globe|date=8 March 2024|quote=Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.}}

|Hukumina speakers

|northwest Buru

Jangil

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1920.00001"|by 1920s{{cite web|url=http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520161055/http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter8/text8.htm#jangil|url-status=dead|archive-date=20 May 2013|title=The Andamanese|access-date=2024-03-07|quote=During the early 1920s a British expedition searched the interior of Rutland Island found no trace of any human habitation.}}

|Jangil

|Rutland Island

|Unattested

Judeo-Malay

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=January 2025}}

|Malaysian Jews

|Penang

|

Juwoi

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1931.00001"|1931

|Juwoi

|west central and southwest interior of Middle Andaman

|

Kamarian

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2001.00001"|2001-2007{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/kzx|title=Kamarian|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140220144128/http://www.ethnologue.com/language/kzx|archive-date=2014-02-20|url-status=dead|quote=...now probably extinct (Wurm 2007).}}

|Kamarian

|west Seram Island

|

Katabangan

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2006.00001"|by 2006{{cite web|page=92|first=Jason William|last=Lobel|url=http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221115050949/http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/graduate/Dissertations/JasonLobelFinal.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=15 November 2022|title=Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction|access-date=2024-08-14|quote=While the Katabangan of Catanauan exists in name as a group, a visit to the group in 2006 confirmed that none of the Katabangan speak any language natively other than Tagalog, nor is there any recollection of their ancestors speaking any other language.}}

|Agta

|Bondoc Peninsula

|

Kayeli

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1989.00001"|1989{{cite web|url=http://www.lexvo.org/page/iso639-3/kzl|title=iso639-3/kzl|access-date=2024-05-17|quote=The last speaker of the Leliali dialect died in 1989}}

|Kayeli people

|Buru

|

Kede

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1940.00001"|1930-1950s

|Aka-Kede

|Southeast Middle Andaman

|

Kenaboi

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="1890.00001"|after 1890s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Kenaboi

|Negeri Sembilan

|

Kol

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1921.00001"|1921

|Kol

|Northern section of Middle Andaman

|

Kora

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="2004.00001"|November 2009{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article100977.ece?css=print|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110010919/http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article100977.ece?css=print |url-status=dead|archive-date=10 November 2012|title=The Hindu|website=The Hindu|access-date=2024-03-07}}

|Kora

|northeast and north central coasts of North Andaman and Smith Island

|Dialect of Northern Andamanese

Lelak

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1970.00001"|1970s{{e25|llk|Lelak}}

|Lelak people

|Sarawak

Loun

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="_"|{{Data missing|date=September 2024}}

|Loun people

|Maluku Islands

Luhu

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2024.00001"|by 2024

|Luhu speakers

|Seram Island

Makuva

|Trans–New Guinea?

|data-sort-value="1950.00001"|1950s{{cite web|url=http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/34024406/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070418082956/http://noorderlicht.vpro.nl/artikelen/34024406/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2007|title=Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu|access-date=2024-08-06|language=Dutch}}

|Makuva people

|East Timor

Mardijker

|Portuguese creole

|data-sort-value="2012.00001"|2012{{cite web|last1=Dimas|first1=Dimas|title=PUNAHNYA BAHASA KREOL PORTUGIS|url=http://ipsk.lipi.go.id/index.php/kolom-peneliti/kolom-kemasyarakatan-dan-kebudayaan/417-punahnya-bahasa-kreol-portugis|website=LIPI|access-date=13 June 2024|language=Indonesian|archive-date=8 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808003934/http://ipsk.lipi.go.id/index.php/kolom-peneliti/kolom-kemasyarakatan-dan-kebudayaan/417-punahnya-bahasa-kreol-portugis|url-status=dead}}

|Mardijker people

|Jakarta

Moksela

|unclassified

|data-sort-value="1974.00001"|1974{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=vms|title=Moksela|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081023230254/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=vms|archive-date=2008-10-23|url-status=dead|quote=Last speaker died in 1974.}}

|Moksela people

|Buru Island

Nila

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1999.00001"|1999{{e25|nil|Nila}}

|Nila speakers

|Nila Island and Seram Island

Pucikwar

|Andamanese

|data-sort-value="1940.00001"|1930-1950s

|Pucikwar

|south coast of Middle Andaman, northeast coast of South Andaman and Baratang Island

|

Palumata

|Austronesian?

|data-sort-value="2024.00001"|by 2024

|Palumata speakers

|Buru

|

Phalok

|Austroasiatic

|data-sort-value="1950.00001"|since 1950sMoseley (2010), p. 209.

|Phalok people

|Chiang Mai

|

Portugis

|Portuguese creole

|data-sort-value="2024.00001"|by 2024

|Christians of mixed Portuguese and Malay ancestry

|Indonesia

|

Pyu

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1100.00001"|1100s AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/pyx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605040158/http://multitree.org/codes/pyx|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 June 2021|title=Pyu|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-06|quote=c. 5th? - 12th century AD.}}

|Pyu people

|Myanmar

|

Rusenu

|Trans–New Guinea?

|data-sort-value="2007.00001"|after 2007

|Rusenu speakers

|eastern East Timor

|

Sabüm

|Austroasiatic

|data-sort-value="1976.00001"|1976{{cite web|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sbo|title=Sabüm|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-10-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190704054147/https://www.ethnologue.com/language/sbo|archive-date=2019-07-04|url-status=dead|quote=The last speaker survived into the late 1970s (Benjamin 1976).}}

|{{Data missing|date=January 2025}}

|Malaysia

|

Seru

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="1950"|since 1950sMoseley (2010), p. 211.

|Seru people

|Sarawak

|

Serua

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2024.00001"|by 2024

|Seruans

|Seram Island

|

Taman

|Sino-Tibetan

|data-sort-value="1990.00001"|1990s{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tcl|title=Taman|publisher=Ethnologue|access-date=2024-06-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111217190012/http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=tcl|archive-date=2011-12-17|url-status=dead|quote=Reportedly the last speaker of Taman died in the 1990s.}}

|Shan

|Tamanthi

Tambora

|Papuan

|data-sort-value="1815.00001"|April 1815{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20172326|title=The Papuan Language of Tambora|author=Mark Donohue|journal=Oceanic Linguistics|date=2007|volume=46|issue=2|pages=520–537|quote=...the language, along with its speakers, was lost in a gigantic volcanic eruption, the most cataclysmic in historic times in April 1815.|publisher=JSTOR|doi=10.1353/ol.2008.0014|jstor=20172326|access-date=2024-05-07|url-access=subscription}}

|Tambora culture

|Sumbawa

Tây Bồi

|French pidgin

|data-sort-value="1954.00001"|after 1954{{cite book|language=German|title=Lexikon der untergegangenen Sprachen|page=188|first=Harald|last=Haarmann}}

|Vietnamese people

|Vietnam

Teun

|Austronesian

|data-sort-value="2013.00001"|2013{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Teun|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/TEUN|access-date=2025-01-10|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=status extinct since 2013}}

|Teun speakers

|Seram Island

Timor Pidgin

|Portuguese creole

|data-sort-value="1960.00001"|1960s{{cite web|url=http://www.lexvo.org/page/iso639-3/tvy|title=iso639-3/tvy|access-date=2024-05-17|quote=...that was spoken in Bidau, an eastern suburb of Dili, East Timor until the 1960s}}

|Portuguese settlers

|Dili

Wila'

|Austroasiatic

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s-1820s{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Wila' speaking people

|Malaysia

Siberia

class="wikitable sortable"

!Language/dialect

!Family

!data-sort-type=number|Date of extinction

!Ethnic group(s)

!Native to

!Notes

Arin

|Yeniseian

|data-sort-value="1790.00001"|late 1730s{{Cite web |title=Исчезающие народы/языки: Аринцы, Аринский (Arin) {{!}} СМДО КубГУ |url=https://moodle.kubsu.ru/mod/folder/view.php?id=8833 |access-date=2025-01-01 |website=moodle.kubsu.ru}}

|Arins

|Yenisey between Yeniseysk and Krasnoyarsk

|

Arman

|Tungusic

|data-sort-value="1970.00001"|1970sMoseley (2010), p. 52.

|Evens

|Arman river

|Dialect of Even

Assan

|Yeniseian

|data-sort-value="1790.00001"|1790{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Assan|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/ASSAN|access-date=2024-11-17|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=status extinct since 1790}}

|Asan people

|Krasnoyarsk Krai

|

Bering Aleut

|Eskaleut

|data-sort-value="2021.00001"|March 2021{{cite news|date=5 October 2022|title=Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies|newspaper=Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-last-aleut-speaker-dies/32066540.html|access-date=2024-04-26}}

|Aleuts

|Kamchatka Krai, Russia

|Dialect of Aleut

Chuvan

|Yukaghir

|data-sort-value="1700.00001"|1700s{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/xcv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602134302/http://multitree.org/codes/xcv|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 June 2012|title=Chuvantsy|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-04-26|quote=Survived until perhaps the 18th century AD.}}

|Chuvans

|Anadyr river basin of Chukotka

|

Eastern Itelmen

|Chukotko-Kamchatkan

|data-sort-value="1930.00001"|1930s{{cite journal|last=Kibrik|first=Aleksandr E.|date=March 1991|title=The Problem of Endangered Languages in the USSR|journal=Diogenes|volume=39|issue=153|pages=67–83|doi=10.1177/039219219103915305|issn=0392-1921|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0392192100322519/type/journal_article|url-access=subscription}}

|Itelmens

|Kamchatka Peninsula

|

Eastern Mansi

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="2018.00001"|2018{{cite book|first1=Daniel|last1=Abondolo|first2=Riitta-Liisa|last2=Valijärvi|date=31 Mar 2023|title=The Uralic Languages|quote=Maksim Sivtorov passed away in early 2018, and Eastern Mansi is thus the latest Uralic language to become extinct.}}

|Mansi

|Khanty-Mansi

|

Govorka

|Russian based creole

|data-sort-value="2005.00001"|by 2005{{cite journal|date=2005|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40160794|publisher=JSTOR|title=Taimyr Pidgin Russian (Govorka)|journal=Russian Linguistics|quote=These are the Norwegian-Russian pidgin known as Russenorsk, Chinese Pidgin Russian and Taimyr Pidgin Russian (TPR). Brief remarks in travel accounts and elsewhere indicate the existence of other Russian pidgins, such as Chukotka Pidgin Russian and Kamchatka Pidgin Russian. None of these, however, have been documented or described. In the case of the documented pidgins, the extent of the text samples is far from being exhaustive. With the exception of TPR, further documentation seems no longer possible, however, as the pidgins in question are extinct by now.|volume=29|issue=3|issn=0304-3487|first=Dieter|last=Stern|pages=289–318|doi=10.1007/s11185-005-8376-3|jstor=40160794|access-date=2024-08-25|url-access=subscription}}

|Nganasan

|Taymyr Peninsula

|

Kamas

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1989.00001"|1989{{cite web|date=February 9, 2019|title=Dying Languages|url=https://dzen.ru/a/XF2T4C_MQwCvPn4s|access-date=7 March 2024|website=Dzen}}

|Kamasins

|north of the Sayan Mountains

|

Kamas Turk

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="1950.00001"|since 1950sMoseley (2010), p. 195-196.

|Khakas

|Khakassia

|Dialect of Khakas

Kerek

|Chukotko-Kamchatkan

|data-sort-value="2005.00001"|2005{{cite book|date=22 December 2011|first=Michael|last= Fortescue|title=Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary|page=1}}

|Kereks

|Chukotka

|

Kott

|Yeniseian

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/zko.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921041328/http://multitree.org/codes/zko.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=21 September 2012|title=Kott|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-07|quote=Survived until middle of 19th century AD.}}

|Kotts

|Mana

|

Kuril Ainu

|Ainu

|data-sort-value="1850.00001"|1850-1890s{{cite journal|date=15 March 2019|url=https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/73723|title=The study of old documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu : promise and challenges|journal=北方言語研究 |volume=9 |pages=67–93 |quote=Unfortunately, Kuril Ainu, which is absolutely indispensable for the reconstruction, disappeared in the late 19th century with just few old documents left.|access-date=2024-05-08 |last1=Sato |first1=Tomomi |last2=Bugaeva |first2=Anna }}

|Kuril Ainu

|Kuril Islands, Kamchatka and Hokkaido

|

Kyakhta

|Russian-Chinese pidgin

|data-sort-value="1920.00001"|1920-1940s{{cite web|date=2020|url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/8664821/file/8664824|title=Russian Pidgin Languages|page=3|quote=With the dissolution of the Russian emigré community in Harbin starting with the foundation of Manchukuo in 1932, and the expulsion of the Chinese from the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, CPR lost its remaining functional domains and went extinct.|first=Dieter|last=Stern|access-date=2024-08-25}}

|Russian and Chinese traders

|Kyakhta

|

Lower Chulym

|Turkic

|data-sort-value="2011.00001"|2011{{cite web|url=https://mobile.atlaskmns.ru/page/en/lang_chulymcy_all.html#:~:text=Chulym%20Turkic%20is%20divided%20into,5)%20Chibinsky:%20Kyzyldeeva%20volost.|title=Chulym Turkic|access-date=2024-11-13|quote=Currently, the Lower Chulym dialect is considered extinct (the last speaker, according to Valeria Lemskaya, died in 2011).}}

|Chulyms

|Siberia

|Dialect of Chulym

Mator

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1840.00001"|1840 AD{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/mtm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811102110/http://multitree.org/codes/mtm|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2011|title=Mator|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-07|quote=Mator or Motor was a Uralic language belonging to the group of Samoyedic languages, extinct since the 1840s.}}

|Koibal

|Sayan Mountains

|

Mednyj Aleut

|Mixed AleutRussian

|data-sort-value="2022.00001"|October 2022

|Alaskan Creoles on Medny Island

|Commander Islands, Russia

|

Omok

|Yukaghir

|data-sort-value="1700.00001"|1700s{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/omk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120602134257/http://multitree.org/codes/omk|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 June 2012|title=Omok|access-date=2024-04-26|publisher=LINGUIST List|quote=Survived until perhaps 18th century.}}

|Omoks

|Yakutia and Magadan

|

Pumpokol

|Yeniseian

|data-sort-value="1740.00001"|1740s{{cite web|title=The ASJP Database - Wordlist Pumpokol|url=https://asjp.clld.org/languages/PUMPOKOL|access-date=2024-11-16|website=asjp.clld.org|quote=status extinct since 1740}}

|Pumpokols

|Yenisey

|

Sakhalin Ainu

|Ainu

|data-sort-value="1994.00001"|1994{{cite web|first=Samuel M.|last=Wilson|url=https://sites.utexas.edu/swilson/files/2023/05/Wilson-May23-Language-Isolates.pdf|title=Cultures in Contact|quote=In 1994, Take Asai died at the age of 102. She was the last native speaker of Sakhalin Ainu|access-date=2024-05-08}}

|Sakhalin Ainu

|Sakhalin and Hokkaido

|

Sireniki

|Eskaleut

|data-sort-value="1997.00001"|1997{{cite web|url=http://multitree.org/codes/ysr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121210101426/http://multitree.org/codes/ysr|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 December 2012|title=Sirenik|publisher=LINGUIST List|access-date=2024-03-07|quote=In January 1997 the last native speaker of the language, a woman named Vyie (Valentina Wye) died.}}

|Sirenik Eskimos

|Bering Strait region

|

Southern Itelmen

|Chukotko-Kamchatkan

|data-sort-value="1900.00001"|1900s

|Itelmens

|Kamchatka Peninsula

|

Southern Khanty

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1940.00001"|1940s-1960s{{cite book|last=Salminen|first=Tapani|title=The Uralic languages|date=2023|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-138-65084-8|editor-last=Abondolo|editor-first=Daniel Mario|edition=2nd|series=Routledge Language Family|location=London New York|page=103|chapter=Demography, endangerment, and revitalization|editor-last2=Valijärvi|editor-first2=Riitta-Liisa}}

|Khanty

|lower Irtysh

|56 speakers reported in 2010

Southern Mansi

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1930.00001"|1930-1970s{{cite book|first1=Daniel|last1=Abondolo|first2=Riitta-Liisa|last2=Valijärvi|date=31 Mar 2023|title=The Uralic Languages|quote=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.}}

|Mansi

|Sverdlovsk

|

Western Mansi

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1970.00001"|1970-1990s{{cite book|first1=Daniel|last1=Abondolo|first2=Riitta-Liisa|last2=Valijärvi|date=31 Mar 2023|title=The Uralic Languages|quote=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}}

|Mansi

|Sverdlovsk

|

Yugh

|Yeniseian

|data-sort-value="1972.00001"|by 1972{{cite journal|author=Edward Vajda|title=8 The Yeniseian language family|date=2024-02-19|journal=The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia|pages=365–480|editor-last=Vajda|editor-first=Edward|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110556216-008/html|access-date=2024-11-17|publisher=De Gruyter|doi=10.1515/9783110556216-008|isbn=978-3-11-055621-6|url-access=subscription}}

|Yug

|Yenisey

|

Yurats

|Uralic

|data-sort-value="1800.00001"|1800s{{cite web|first=Michael|last=Krauss|title=The Indigenous Languages of the North : A Report on Their Present State|url=https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2955/files/SES44_002.pdf|access-date=23 April 2024|quote=Yurats was another Samoyedic language replaced by the eastward advance of Tundra Nenets, extinct during the nineteenth century, with meager documentation}}

|Yurats

|west of the Yenisey

|

West Asia

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 ADMehdi 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

|

Philistine Canaanite

|Afroasiatic

|data-sort-value="-700.00001"|700s BCFrank Moore Cross, "A Philistine Ostracon From Ashkelon", BAR 22 (January–February 1996:64–65).

|Philistines

|Philistia

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

Subarian

|Hurro-Urartian ?

|data-sort-value="-1000.00001"|1st millenium BC{{citation needed|date=April 2025}}

|Subarians

|Subartu

|

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

|

Sutean

|Afroasiatic

|data-sort-value="-1100.00001"|1100s BC{{citation needed|date=November 2024}}

|Suteans

|Levant and Mesopotamia

|

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

|

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

|

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

|

See also

References

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