Home›Languages›Language Kind›ExtinctBrowse ByExtinctLanguage kind sorts languages by how vital they are, on a scale from Safe through Vulnerable, Definitely Endangered, Severely Endangered and Critically Endangered to Extinct. This dimension groups languages that share the same vitality status, so a reader can see which languages are still passed to children and which have lost their last speakers.ExtinctComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)ExtinctFilter Results25 entriesLanguage Family (Classification)AllAfro-Asiatic (5)East Semitic (1)Eastern Iranian (1)Germanic (2)Indo-European (4)Iranian (1)Mayan (1)Northwest Semitic (1)Sinitic (1)Slavic (1)Turkic (2)Tyrsenian (1)Western Iranian (1)RegionAllAncient Egypt, along the Nile Valley (1)Eastern Greater Iran (1)Eastern Mediterranean, Greco-Roman world (1)Etruria, Italy (1)Latium (the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy) (1)Lower Nubia to Khartoum area, Sudan (1)Mesopotamia (Assyria and Babylonia), modern Iraq (1)Sasanian Empire (1)Southern Mesopotamia, modern Iraq (1)The Kingdom of Aksum, modern Ethiopia and Eritrea (1)StatusAllClassical (No Native Speakers) (3)Extinct (16)Liturgical / Learned Use Only (6)Speaker Count BandAll0.000000 (12)Script UsedAllAvestan Alphabet (1)Brahmi (3)Coptic Alphabet (1)Cuneiform (2)Cyrillic Script (1)Devanagari (1)Egyptian Hieroglyphs (1)Ge'ez Script (1)Glagolitic Alphabet (1)Greek Script (1)Han Script (1)Latin Script (3)Linear A (1)Linear B (1)Manichaean Alphabet (3)Maya Script (1)Meroitic Script (1)Old Italic Script (2)Old Turkic Script (1)Old Uyghur Alphabet (1)Pahlavi Scripts (1)Runic Alphabet (Elder Futhark) (2)Sogdian Script (2)Syriac Alphabet (3)Younger Futhark (1)Period Start YearAll-3200 (2)-2600 (1)-2100 (1)-1500 (2)-1000 (1)-800 (2)-700 (1)-500 (1)-450 (2)-300 (2)-75 (1)100 (1)224 (1)250 (1)401 (1)801 (1)863 (1)Descends FromAllNeapolitan (1)Sicilian (1)Venetian (1)Official StatusAllNo Official Status (14)Official Language (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 25AkkadianExtinctAncient EgyptianExtinctAncient GreekExtinctAvestanExtinctClassic MayaExtinctClassical ChineseExtinctCopticExtinctEblaiteExtinctEtruscanExtinctGe'ezExtinctLatinExtinctMeroiticExtinctMiddle PersianExtinctMinoan languageExtinctOld Church SlavonicExtinctOld EnglishExtinctOld NorseExtinctOld TurkicExtinctOld UyghurExtinctPrakritExtinctSanskritExtinctSogdianExtinctSumerianExtinctSyriacExtinctUgariticExtinctComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.