2007-09-27 13:42:02 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Recently extinct languages (and this is only tip of the icecberg of languages are no longer exist.)
Adai: (late 19th century)
Akkala Sami: Marja Sergina (2003)
entire Alsean family
Alsea: John Albert (1942)
Yaquina: (1884)
Apalachee: (early 18th century)
Atakapa: (early 20th century)
Atsugewi: (1988)
Beothuk: Shanawdithit (a.k.a. "Nancy April") (1829)
entire Catawban family:
Catawba: before 1960
Woccon
Cayuse: (ca. 1930s)
Chemakum: (ca. 1940s)
Chicomuceltec: (late 20th century)
Chimariko: (ca. 1930s)
Chitimacha: Benjamin Paul (1934) & Delphine Ducloux (1940)
entire Chumashan family: Barbareño language was last to become extinct.
Barbareño: Mary Yee (1965)
Ineseño
Island Chumash
Obispeño
Purisimeño
Ventureño
Coahuilteco: (18th century)
Cochimí (a Yuman-Cochimí language): (early 19th century)
entire Comecrudan family
Comecrudo: recorded from children (Andrade, Emiterio, Joaquin, & others) of last speakers in 1886
Garza: last recorded in 1828
Mamulique: last recorded in 1828
entire Coosan family
Hanis: Martha Johnson (1972)
Miluk: Annie Miner Peterson (1939)
Cornish: (Dolly Pentreath, last fluent speaker, died 1777) (undergoing attempts at revival)
all Costanoan languages (which make up a subfamily of the Utian language family): (ca. 1940s)
Karkin
Mutsun
Northern Costanoan:
Ramaytush
Chochenyo
Tamyen
Awaswas
Rumsen: last recorded speaker died 1939 in Monterey, California.
Chalon
Cotoname: last recorded from Santos Cavázos and Emiterio in 1886
Crimean Gothic: language vanished by the 1800’s
Cuman: (early 17th century)
Dalmatian: Tuone Udaina, (June 10, 1898)
Esselen: report of few speakers left in 1833, extinct before end 19th century
Gabrielino (an Uto-Aztecan language): elderly speakers last recorded in 1933
Galice-Applegate (an Athabaskan language):
Galice dialect: Hoxie Simmons (1963)
Jassic (17th century)
Juaneño (an Uto-Aztecan language): last recorded in 1934
Kakadu (Gagadju): Big Bill Neidjie (July 2002)
entire Kalapuyan family:
Central Kalapuya:
Ahantchuyuk, Luckimute, Mary's River, and Lower McKenzie River dialects: last speakers were about 6 persons who were all over 60 in 1937
Santiam dialect: (ca. 1950s)
Northern Kalapuya:
Tualatin dialect: Louis Kenoyer (1937)
Yamhill dialect: Louisa Selky (1915)
Yonkalla: last recorded in 1937 from Laura Blackery Albertson who only partly remembered it.
Kamassian: (1989)
Karankawa: (1858)
Kathlamet (a Chinookan language): (ca. 1930s)
Kitanemuk (an Uto-Aztecan language): Marcelino Rivera, Isabella Gonzales, Refugia Duran (last recorded 1937)
Kitsai (a Caddoan language): (ca. 1940)
Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie (an Athabaskan language): children of the last speakers remembered a few words, recorded in 1935 & 1942
Clatskanie dialect: father of Willie Andrew (ca. 1870)
Kwalhioqua dialect: mother of Lizzie Johnson (1910)
Lower Chinook (a Chinookan language): (ca. 1930s)
Mahican: last spoken in Wisconsin (ca. 1930s)
Manx: Ned Maddrell (December 1974) (but is being revived as a second language)
Mattole-Bear River (an Athabaskan language):
Bear River dialect: material from last elderly speaker recorded (ca. 1929)
Mattole dialect: material recorded (ca. 1930)
Mbabaram: Albert Bennett (1972)
Miami-Illinois: (1989)
Mochica: ca. 1950s
Mohegan: Fidelia Fielding (1908)
Molala: Fred Yelkes (1958)
Munichi: Victoria Huancho Icahuate (late 1990s)
Natchez: Watt Sam & Nancy Raven (early 1930s)
Negerhollands: Alice Stevenson (1987)
Nooksack: Sindick Jimmy (1977)
Northern Pomo: (1994)
Nottoway (an Iroquoian language): last recorded before 1836
Pentlatch (a Salishan language): Joe Nimnim (1940)
Pánobo (a Pano-Tacanan language): 1991
Polabian (a Slavic language): (late 18th century)
Salinan: (ca. 1960)
entire Shastan family
Konomihu
New River Shasta
Okwanuchu
Shasta: 3 elderly speakers in 1980, extinct by 1990
Siuslaw: (ca. 1970s)
Slovincian (a Slavic language): (20th century)
Susquehannock: all last speakers murdered in 1763
Takelma: Molly Orton (or Molly Orcutt) & Willie Simmons (both not fully fluent) last recorded in 1934
Tasmanian: (late 19th century)
Tataviam (an Uto-Aztecan language): Juan José Fustero who remembered only a few words of his grandparents' language (recorded 1913)
Teteté (an Tucanoan language)
Tillamook (a Salishan language): (1970)
Tonkawa: 6 elderly people in 1931
Tsetsaut (an Athabaskan language): last fluent speaker was elderly man recorded in 1894
Tunica: Sesostrie Youchigant (ca. mid 20th century)
Ubykh: Tevfik Esenç (October 1992)
all dialects of Upper Chinook (a Chinookan language) are extinct, except for the Wasco-Wishram dialect. The Clackamas dialect began extinct in the 1930s, other dialects have little documentation. (The Wasco-Wishram dialect is still spoken by 6 elders.)
Upper Umpqua: Wolverton Orton, last recorded in 1942
Vegliot Dalmatian: Tuone Udaina (Italian: Antonio Udina) (10 June 1898)
Wappo
Wiyot: Della Prince (1962)
Yana: Ishi (1916)
Yola related to English (mid 19th c.)
2007-09-27 22:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by ジャンリン 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many many many languages no longer spoken on a regular or even a practicing basis. Most Native American Indian languages have long since disappeared, or have been diluted into another language altogether. The Mayan and Aztec peoples language no longer survives in today's world. Latin is still around and used limited in specific areas such as Religion, Law, and Medicine. As a language though it is and has been removed from society. The ancient Egyptian language and form of writing is no longer with us except in movies, and scientist's and archaeologists. *** Many other languages not listed here could be brought up, but it would make this answer far to long. I HOPE THIS HELPS
2007-09-27 14:35:39 · answer #2 · answered by aswkingfish 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there was a list of langauges that are no longer with us this list would fill a whole book. Consider this there are 5000 active languages in this modern world. Now consider how many there have been in the past and how colonialism and conquest and other type of occurances have made languages dead.
Consider this a earlier form of English is no longer spoken. Old English and middle English only slightly resemble modern English and I'm not talking about thee and thou. Too see how far gone our language is from its earlier version visit this youtube site.
2007-09-27 14:45:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My language is almost non exist able because back then, we were forced to only speak English. Got punished for trying to talk in our language. But yes there's some native Americans out there that can speak their language yet.
2016-04-06 04:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ooh, we were just talking about this last week in school. One is Kang!, the exclamation is just a symbol they use for a click you make with your tounge. It's spoken by only 1 man who can barely remember it himself : (
2007-09-28 00:55:33 · answer #5 · answered by Awesomelicious~Leprechaun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cornish (there was talk of revival, but last native speaker died in the 1990s)
Etruscan
Sumerian
Assyrian
Babylonian
Levonian
Hittite
Lyddean
Tasmanian
many Native American languages
2007-09-27 13:51:33 · answer #6 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Latin isnt widely spoken but it isnt completely gone.
2007-09-27 13:45:19 · answer #7 · answered by Morgan 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
proper English
2007-09-27 13:45:50 · answer #8 · answered by momofthree 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Funny, I was wondering the same thing myself
2016-08-24 17:47:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
pig latin.
its just a gol'durn shame too.
2007-09-27 13:45:54 · answer #10 · answered by dali333 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋