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An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the termi

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  • An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum.(This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.) (en)
  • Cette page présente une liste de langues par date d'extinction. Quand la date de mort du dernier locuteur n'est pas précisément connue, on donne soit une date approchée, soit la date du dernier témoignage de cette langue. Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive. (fr)
  • 这是根据灭绝时间排序的灭绝语言列表。以最后一位将其作为母语的说话人之死亡日期为判定基准。当最后的最后一位将其作为母语的说话人之死亡日期未知时，给出了大约时间或最后记录语言的日期。不管怎样，此列表并不完整。 (zh)
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  • Cette page présente une liste de langues par date d'extinction. Quand la date de mort du dernier locuteur n'est pas précisément connue, on donne soit une date approchée, soit la date du dernier témoignage de cette langue. Cette liste n'est pas exhaustive. (fr)
  • 这是根据灭绝时间排序的灭绝语言列表。以最后一位将其作为母语的说话人之死亡日期为判定基准。当最后的最后一位将其作为母语的说话人之死亡日期未知时，给出了大约时间或最后记录语言的日期。不管怎样，此列表并不完整。 (zh)
  • An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the termi (en)
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  • Liste de langues par date d'extinction (fr)
  • List of languages by time of extinction (en)
  • 依時間序列滅亡語言列表 (zh)
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