List of extinct languages - Definition and Overview

This is a list of languages that currently have no speakers to which it is mother tongue.

Africa

Angola

• Kwadi

Cameroon

• Duli
• Gey
• Nagumi
• Yeni

Chad

• Horo
• Muskum

Côte d'Ivoire

• Esuma

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Ngbee

Egypt

• Coptic

Eritrea

• Geez

Ethiopia

• Gafat
• Geez (see Eritrea, above)
• Weyto

Guinea

• Baga Kaloum
• Baga Sobané

Nigeria

• Ajawa
• Auyokawa
• Basa-Gumna
• Gamo-Ningi
• Kpati
• Kubi
• Mawa
• Teshenawa

South Africa

• //Xegwi
• /Xam
• Seroa

Sudan

• Baygo
• Berti
• Birked
• Gule
• Homa
• Mittu
• Old Nubian
• Togoyo
• Torona

Tanzania

• Aasáx
• Kw'adza

Tunisia

• Lingua franca
• Sened

Uganda

• Nyang'i
• Singa

The Americas

Argentina

• Chané

Bahamas

• Taino

Bolivia

• Canichana
• Cayubaba
• Itene
• Jorá
• Saraveca
• Shinabo

Brazil

• Acroá
• Arara
• Arua
• Guana
• Kaimbé
• Kamakan
• Kamba
• Kambiwá
• Kanoé
• Kapinawá
• Karipuna
• Kariri-Xocó
• Maritsauá
• Nukuini
• Oti
• Otuke
• Pankararé
• Paranawát
• Pataxó-Hãhaãi
• Potiguara
• Puri
• Tapeba
• Tingui-Boto
• Truká
• Tukumanféd
• Tupinambá
• Tupinikin
• Turiwara
• Tuxá
• Tuxinawa
• Uamué
• Umotina
• Wakoná
• Wasu
• Wiraféd
• Xakriabá
• Yabaâna

Canada

• Beothuk
• Laurentian
• Pentlatch
• Tsetsaut
• Wyandot

Chile

• Kakauhua
• Kunza

Colombia

• Andaqui
• Anserma
• Arma
• Barbacoas
• Cagua
• Chibcha
• Chipiajes
• Coxima
• Coyaima
• Cumeral
• Macaguaje
• Natagaimas
• Omejes
• Pijao
• Ponares
• Runa
• Tama
• Tomedes
• Totoro
• Yahuna

Costa Rica

• Chorotega

Dominica

• Carib, Island

Ecuador

• Tetete

El Salvador

• Cacaopera

Guatemala

• Chicomuceltec
• Xinca

Guyana

• Skepi Creole Dutch

Mexico

• Chicomuceltec (see Guatemala, above)
• Cochimí
• Náhuatl, Classical
• Náhuatl, Tabasco
• Pame Sur
• Tepecano
• Tubar

Nicaragua

• Matagalpa
• Monimbo
• Subtiaba

Paraguay

• Emok

Peru

• Abishira
• Aguano
• Andoa
• Atsahuaca
• Aushiri
• Hibito
• Nocaman
• Omurano
• Panobo
• Puquina
• Quechua, Classical
• Remo
• Sensi
• Yameo

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Carib, Island (see Dominica, above)

U.S. Virgin Islands

• Dutch Creole

United States

• Alsea
• Atakapa
• Barbareño
• Biloxi
• Chimariko
• Chitimacha
• Chumash
• Coquille
• Costanoan, Northern
• Costanoan, Southern
• Cruzeño
• Delaware, Pidgin
• Esselen
• Galice
• Ineseño
• Iowa-Oto
• Karkin
• Kitsai
• Lumbee
• Maidu, Valley
• Mattole
• Miami
• Miwok, Bay
• Mobilian
• Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
• Molale
• Nanticoke
• Natchez
• Nooksack
• Obispeño
• Ofo
• Piro
• Pomo, Eastern
• Pomo, Northern
• Powhatan
• Purisimeño
• Salinan
• Siuslaw
• Susquehannock
• Takelma
• Tillamook
• Tonkawa
• Tunica
• Tutelo
• Twana
• Ventureño
• Wailaki
• Wampanoag
• Wiyot
• Wyandot (see Canada, above)
• Yana

Venezuela

• Baniva
• Yavitero

Asia

China

• Jurchen
• Tocharian

India

• Ahom
• Aka-Bea
• Aka-Bo
• Aka-Cari
• Aka-Jeru
• Aka-Kede
• Aka-Kol
• Aka-Kora
• Akar-Bale
• Oko-Juwoi
• Pali

Middle East

• Akkadian
• Amorite
• Caananite
• Eblaite
• Edomite
• Elamite
• Hattian
• Hittite
• Hurrian
• Luwian
• Lycian
• Lydian
• Moabite
• Ottoman Turkish
• Phrygian
• Phoenician
• Samnite
• Nabatean
• Sumerian
• Urartian
• Ubykh

Europe

Balkans

• Thracian
• Dacian
• Illyrian

Greece

• Yevanic (Judeo-Greek)
• Cappadocian Greek

Italy

• Hunnic
• Latin
• Ligurian
• Oscan
• Umbrian
• Lepontic
• Messapian
• Etruscan
• Venetic

Northern Europe

• Anglo-Saxon
• Cornish
• Gothic
• Norn
• Old Norse
• Pictish
• Westcountry Brythonic
• West Baltic languages
  • Sudovian (Yotvingian) language
  • Old Prussian language
  • Galindan language
• East Baltic languages
  • Curonian (Kursh) language
  • Selonian language
  • Semigallian language

Iberian Peninsula

• Iberic
• Tartessian
• Celtiberian
• Lusitanian
• Aquitanian
• Mozarabic

See also

• Endangered language
• List of endangered languages
• List of revived languages
• Language policy
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire