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This article is a list of languages and dialects that have no native speakers , no spoken descendants , and that diverged from their parent language in Europe.
Currently extinct
Language/dialect
Family
Date of extinction
Region
Ethnic group(s)
Aeolic Greek
Indo-European
300 BC[citation needed ]
Aeolis , Boeotia , Lesbos , Thessaly
Aeolians
Aequian
Indo-European
200s BC[ 1]
East-central Italy
Aequi
Akkala Sámi
Uralic
29 December 2003[ 2]
Southwest Kola Peninsula
Akkala Sámi
Alavese
Basque (language isolate )
[data missing ]
Álava
Alavese Basques
Ancient Belgian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Nordwestblock
Belgae
Ancient Macedonian
Indo-European
0–300s AD[ 3]
Macedonia
Ancient Macedonians
Andalusi Arabic
Afroasiatic
1600s AD[ 4]
Al-Andalus
Andalusi Muslims
Andalusi Romance
Indo-European
1300s AD[ 5]
Al-Andalus
Mozarabs and Muladí
Antrim Irish
Indo-European
25 February 1983[ 6]
County Antrim
Irish
Arcadocypriot Greek
Indo-European
300 BC[citation needed ]
Arcadia and Cyprus
Arcadocypriot Greeks
Armeno-Kipchak
Turkic
1600 AD[ 7]
Crimea
Crimean Armenians
Army Slavic
German –Czech pidgin
1918 AD[ 8]
Austria-Hungary
Austro-Hungarian Army
Arran Gaelic
Indo-European
1977 AD[ 9]
Isle of Arran
Arran Gaels
Auregnais
Indo-European
1960s AD[ 10]
Alderney
Channel Islanders of Alderney
Basque–Icelandic pidgin
Basque –Icelandic pidgin
1600s AD[ 11]
Westfjords
Basque whalers and Icelanders
Bohemian Romani
Indo-European
1939–1945[ 12]
Bohemia
Bohemian Romani
Borgarmålet
Swedish –Sámi pidgin
1700s AD[ 13]
Swedish Sápmi
Swedes and Sámi
British Latin
Indo-European
700s AD[ 14]
Roman Britain ; later Anglo-Saxon England
British Romans
Bulgar
Turkic
1200s AD[ 15]
Danubian Bulgaria and Volga Bulgaria
Bulgars
Buri
Indo-European
[data missing ]
western Slovakia
Buri tribe
Burgundian
Indo-European
500s AD[ 16]
Kingdom of the Burgundians
Burgundians
Camunic
Unclassified
500–0s BC[ 17]
Val Camonica
Camunni
Celtiberian
Indo-European
100s AD[ 18]
Iberia
Celtiberians
Cimmerian
Indo-European
620–580s BC[ 19]
North Caucasus
Cimmerians
Cisalpine Gaulish
Indo-European
50s BC[ 20]
Cisalpine Gaul
Cisalpine Gauls
Crimean Gothic
Indo-European
1700s AD[ 21]
Crimea
Crimean Goths
Cromarty
Indo-European
2 October 2012[ 22]
Cromarty
Scots
Cuman
Turkic
1770 AD[ 23]
Cumania and Hungary
Cumans
Cumbric
Indo-European
1100s AD[ 24]
Cumbria
Cumbrians
Curonian
Indo-European
1500s AD[ 25]
Courland
Curonians
Dacian
Indo-European
500s AD[ 26]
Dacia
Dacians
Dalmatian
Indo-European
10 June 1898[ 27]
Dalmatia
Dalmatae
Dardanian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Kingdom of Dardania
Dardani
Deeside Gaelic
Indo-European
18 March 1984[ 28]
Aberdeenshire
Gaels of Aberdeenshire
East Sutherland Gaelic
Indo-European
2020[ 29] [ 30]
Sutherland
Gaels , Scottish people
Eastern Navarrese
Basque (language isolate )
1991[ 31]
Navarre
Basques
Eiderstedt Frisian
Indo-European
mid-1800s AD[ 32]
Eiderstedt
Eiderstedt Frisians
Elymian
Indo-European
500–0s BC[ 33]
Western Sicily
Elymians
Eteocretan
Unclassified
200s BC[ 34]
Crete
Eteocretans
Eteocypriot
Unclassified
300s BC[ 35]
Cyprus
Eteocypriots
Etruscan
Tyrsenian
0s AD[ 36]
Etruria
Etruscans
Faliscan
Indo-European
100s BC[ 37]
Northern Lazio
Falisci
Fingallian
Indo-European
1840–1860s[citation needed ]
Fingal
Fingallians
Franco-Italian
Indo-European
1300s AD[ 38]
Northern Italy
North Italian writers
Gallaecian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Gallaecia
Gallaeci
Galwegian Gaelic
Indo-European
1760 AD[ 39]
Galloway
Galwegian Gaels
Gaulish
Indo-European
500s AD[ 40]
Gaul
Gauls
Gelonian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Gallaecia
Vorskla
Golyad
Indo-European
1100s AD[ 41]
Protva basin
Eastern Galindians
Gothic
Indo-European
1700s AD[ 42]
Throughout Europe
Goths
Harlingerland Frisian
Indo-European
1700s AD[ 43]
Harlingerland
East Frisians
Hernican
Indo-European
1000–0s BC[ 44]
Southeast Latium
Hernici
Herulian
Indo-European
after 500s AD[citation needed ]
Middle Danube
Heruli
Hiberno-Latin
Indo-European
1100s AD[ 45]
Ireland
Irish monks
Hunnic
Unclassified
400s AD[ 46]
Hunnic Empire
Huns
Iazychie
Indo-European
1900s[ 47]
Halychyna , Bukovina , Zakarpattia
Ukrainian and Carpatho-Rusyn Moskvophiles
Iberian
Unclassified
0–500s AD[ 48]
Iberia
Iberians
Illyrian
Indo-European
100s AD[ 49]
Illyria
Illyrians
Istrian Albanian
Indo-European
1800s AD[ 50]
Istria
Istrian Albanians
Jassic
Indo-European
1400s AD[ 51]
Jászság
Jász
Judaeo-Aragonese
Indo-European
after 1492 AD[citation needed ]
Aragon
Aragonese Jews
Judaeo-Catalan
Indo-European
after 1492 AD[citation needed ]
Catalan Countries
Catalonian Jews
Judaeo-Piedmontese
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Piedmont
Piedmontese Jews
Judaeo-Portuguese
Indo-European
1800–1820s AD[ 52]
Portugal
Portuguese Jews
Judeo-Livornese
Indo-European
After August 18, 1962[citation needed ]
Livorno
Livornese Jews
Judeo-Mantuan
Indo-European
20th century[citation needed ]
Mantua
Mantuan Jews
Judeo-Provençal
Indo-European
mid 20th-century[ 53]
Provence
Provençal Jews
Judeo-Venetian
Indo-European
1900s[ 54]
Venice
Venetian Jews
Kainuu Sámi
Uralic
1700s AD[ 55]
Kainuu
Kainuu Sámi
Karamanli Turkish
Turkic
1800s[citation needed ]
Greece , Bulgaria , North Macedonia and Romania
Karamanlides
Kemi Sámi
Uralic
by 1900s[ 56]
Southern Finnish Lapland
Kemi Sámi
Khazar
Turkic
1100s AD[ 57]
Khazar Khaganate
Khazars
Klezmer-loshn
Indo-European
1900s[citation needed ]
Eastern Europe
Klezmorim
Knaanic
Indo-European
1600s AD[ 58]
Central Europe
West Slavic Jews
Kraasna
Uralic
1935-1939 AD[ 59]
Krasnogorodsk
Kraasna Estonians
Krevinian
Uralic
1800s AD[ 60]
Latvia
Kreevins
Lachoudisch
Indo-European
2022 AD[ 61]
Schopfloch
Jews of Bavaria
Laiuse Romani
Mixed Romani –Estonian
1940s AD[ 62]
Laiuse
Romani of Laiuse
Lanuvian
Indo-European
500s BC[citation needed ]
Lanuvium
Lanuvians
Leinster Irish
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Leinster
Irish of Leinster
Leivu
Uralic
1988 AD[ 63]
Gauja
Gauja Estonians
Lemnian
Tyrsenian
400s BC[ 64]
Lemnos
Lemnians
Lepontic
Indo-European
0s BC[ 65]
Cisalpine Gaul and Raetia
Lepontii
Liburnian
Indo-European
200s BC-300s AD[ 66]
Liburnia
Liburnians
Ligurian
Unclassified
100s AD[ 67]
Liguria
Ligures
Locrian Greek
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Locris
Locrians
Lombardic
Indo-European
800s AD[ 68]
Pannonia and Italy
Lombards
Ludza
Uralic
2006[ 69] or 2014
Latgale
Ludza Estonians
Lusitanian
Indo-European
100s AD[ 70]
Lusitania
Lusitanians
Malkh
Northeast Caucasian
[data missing ]
North Caucasus
Malkh
Marsian
Indo-European
150s BC[ 71]
Marsica
Marsi
Marrucinian
Indo-European
200s BC[ 72]
Chieti
Marrucini
Merya
Uralic
by 1700s AD[ 73]
Upper Volga region
Meryans
Meshchera
Uralic
1500s AD[ 74]
Meshchera Lowlands
Meshchera
Messapic
Indo-European
100s BC[ 75]
Salento
Messapians
Southern Goesharde Frisian
Indo-European
1981[ 76]
Southern Goesharde
Frisians of South Goesharde
Minoan
Unclassified
1450s BC[ 77]
Crete
Minoans
Moselle Romance
Indo-European
1000s AD[ 78]
The Moselle
People along the Moselle
Muromian
Uralic
900s AD[ 79]
Oka basin
Muromians
Mycenaean Greek
Indo-European
1200s BC[ 80]
Mycenaean Greece
Mycenaean Greeks
Mysian
Indo-European
0s BC[ 81]
Balkans
Mysians
Noric
Indo-European
100s AD[ 82]
Noricum
Norici
Norn
Indo-European
1850 AD[ 83]
Northern Isles and Caithness
Norse settlement of Northern Isles and Caithness
North Picene
Unclassified
1000–0s BC[ 84]
North Picenum
North Picentes
Northern Manx
Indo-European
1940s AD[ 85]
Northern part of the Isle of Man
Northern Manx
Oenotrian
Indo-European
400s BC[ 86]
Southern Italy
Oenotrians
Old Novgorod
Indo-European
1500s AD[ 87]
Novgorod Republic
Novgorodians
Old Prussian
Indo-European
1700s AD[ 88]
Prussia
Old Prussians
Oscan
Indo-European
0s AD[ 89]
Campania and Latium adiectum
Osci
Paelignian
Indo-European
100s BC[ 90]
Valle Peligna
Paeligni
Paeonian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Paeonia
Paeonians
Paleo-Corsican
Unclassified
[data missing ]
Corsica
Ancient Corsi
Paleo-Sardinian
Unclassified
100s AD[citation needed ]
Sardinia
Nuragic peoples
Pamphylian Greek
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Pamphylia
Pamphylians
Pannonian Avar
Unclassified
600s AD[citation needed ]
Pannonian Basin
Pannonian Avars
Pannonian Romance
Indo-European
1100s AD[ 91]
Pannonia
Latin Pannonians
Pecheneg
Turkic
1100s AD[ 92]
Eastern Europe
Pechenegs
Pelasgian
Unclassified
[data missing ]
Aegean Islands
Pelasgians
Phrygian
Indo-European
after 400 AD[ 93]
Balkans
Bryges
Pictish
Indo-European
1000s AD[ 94]
Northern Scotland
Picts
Polabian
Indo-European
3 October 1756 AD[ 95]
Northeastern Germany
Polabian Slavs
Pomeranian Baltic
Indo-European
1st millenium BC[ 96]
Baltic Pomerania
Pomeranian Balts
Praenestinian
Indo-European
500s BC[citation needed ]
Palestrina
Praenestinians
Prague German
Indo-European
after 1945[citation needed ]
Prague
Prague Germans
Pre-Samnite
Indo-European
500s BC[ 97]
Campania
Pre-Samnites
Punic
Afroasiatic
600s AD[ 98]
Iberia , Malta , Sicily , Sardinia and the Balearic Islands
Carthaginians
Rhaetic
Tyrsenian
0s BC[ 99]
Raetia
Raeti
Rotvælsk
Indo-European
1900s[ 100]
Denmark
Natmændsfolk
Rugian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Lower Austria
Rugii
Russenorsk
Russian –Norwegian pidgin
1900s[ 101]
Northern Norway
Pomors and Norwegians
Sabine
Indo-European
300s-200s BC[ 102]
Sabina
Sabines
Sabir
Romance -based Pidgin
1800s AD[ 103]
Mediterranean Basin
Medieval traders and Crusaders
Selonian
Indo-European
1500s AD[ 104]
Selonia
Selonians
Semigallian
Indo-European
1500s AD[ 105]
Semigallia
Semigallians
Shirvani Arabic
Afroasiatic
1850–1890s AD[citation needed ]
Shirvan
Shirvani
Sicanian
Unclassified
by 300s BC[ 106]
Central Sicily
Sicani
Siculian
Indo-European
300s BC[ 107]
Eastern Sicily
Sicels
Sidicini
Indo-European
[data missing ]
Sidicinum
Sidicini
Skalvian
Indo-European
1200s AD[citation needed ]
Scalovia
Skalvians
Skirian
Indo-European
[data missing ]
North of the Middle Danube
Sciri
Slovincian
Indo-European
1900s[ 108]
Northwestern Kashubia
Slovincians
Solombala English
English –Russian pidgin
1800s AD[ 109]
Solombala Shipyard
English and Russian traders
Sorothaptic
Indo-European
100s AD[citation needed ]
Catalan Countries
Urnfield culture
South Picene
Indo-European
300s BC[ 110]
South Picenum
South Picentes
Sudovian
Indo-European
1500s AD[ 111]
Yotvingia
Yotvingians
Suebian
Indo-European
500s AD[citation needed ]
Elbe basin and northwestern Iberia
Suebi
Tartessian
Unclassified
100s BC[ 112]
Tartessos
Tartessians
Thracian
Indo-European
500s AD[ 113]
Thracia
Thracians
Ubykh
Northwest Caucasian
7 October 1992[ 114]
Ubykhia
Ubykh
Umbrian
Indo-European
0s BC[ 115]
Umbria
Umbri
Upgant Frisian
Indo-European
mid-1600s[citation needed ]
Upgant-Schott
Frisians of Upgant-Schott
Vandalic
Indo-European
500s AD[ 116]
Vandal kingdoms
Vandals
Värmland Savonian
Uralic
1969 AD[ 117]
Värmland
Forest Finns
Venetic
Indo-European
0s BC[ 118]
Veneto
Adriatic Veneti
Vestinian
Indo-European
100s BC[ 119]
Abruzzo
Vestini
Volscian
Indo-European
200s BC[ 120]
Volscia
Volsci
Wangerooge Frisian
Indo-European
22 November 1950[ 121]
Wangerooge
Wangerooge Frisians
Welsh Romani
Indo-European
1950 AD[ 122]
Wales
Romani
West Galindian
Indo-European
1300s AD[ 123]
Prussia
Western Galindians
Wursten Frisian
Indo-European
1810–1830s AD[citation needed ]
Land Wursten
Frisians of Land Wursten
Yola
Indo-European
1800s AD[ 124]
Forth and Bargy
Irish of Forth and Bargy
Zarphatic
Indo-European
1300s AD[ 125]
Northern France and west-central Germany
French Jews
See also
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^ Siporin, Steve (24 October 2001). "Venice and the Jews" . Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 8 October 2024 . ...the Jewish-Venetian dialect that survived into the 20th century.
^ Irja Seurujärvi-Kar (2011). " "We Took Our Language Back" – The Formation of a Sámi Identity within the Sámi Movement and the Role of the Sámi Language from the 1960s until 2008" (PDF) . p. 39. Retrieved 1 October 2024 . ...Kainuu Sámi (used until 16th–18th century in the area of the Forest Sámi people in central Finland and in the Republic of Karelia).
^ "iso639-3/sjk" . Retrieved 16 May 2024 . Extinct now for over 100 years, few written examples of Kemi Sami survive.
^ "Khazar" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . 6th - 12th century AD.
^ "Knaanic" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 13 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . c. 700 - 1600 AD.
^ "Who are the Lutsis" . Ludzīlazest. Retrieved 8 August 2024 . ...the last speaker of Kraasna most likely died before World War II.
^ "Krevinian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 26 September 2012. Retrieved 6 April 2024 . Material from 15th-19th centuries AD.
^ Eylon, Lili (25 June 2022). "The Judenrein town that spoke Hebrew" . Times Of Israel. Indeed, by 1994, reportedly only 12 people used some 200 Lachoudish words. The dialect Lachoudish had its day; it is now extinct
^ Smith, Norval (1994). "An annotated list of creoles, pidgins, and mixed languages". In Arends, Jacque; Muysken, Pieter; Smith, Norval (eds.). Pidgins and Creoles: An Introduction . John Benjamins.
^ "Linguistica Uralica, 2010. Quantity in Leivu" (PDF) . kirj.ee. Retrieved 27 July 2024 . The speaker Anton Bok was born in 1908. He lived in Pajuçsilla village. He was recorded in 1971 by Paulopriit Voolaine. His mother tongue was Leivu and he acquired Latvian at school. He has been called the last Leivu speaker; he died in 1988.
^ "Lemnian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 23 April 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . An ancient language of the Greek island of Lemnos. Until perhaps 400 BC.
^ "Lepontic - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . c. 600 BC - 1 BC.
^ "Liburnian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 8 October 2024 . Roman period.
^ "Ligurian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 300 BC- 100 AD.
^ "Langobardic - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 18 August 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2024 . 4th - 9th century AD.
^ "Ludzī kīļ : The Lutsi Language" . lutsimaa.lv . Retrieved 13 June 2024 . The last speaker of Lutsi, Nikolājs Nikonovs, died in 2006.
^ "Lusitanian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 2nd Century AD.
^ "Marsian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 14 April 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 300-150 BC.
^ "Marrucinian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 3 February 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . The tablet seems to have dated to the mid 3rd century BC.
^ Pauli, Rahkonen (2013). "Itämerensuomalaisten kielten kaakkoinen kontaktialue nimistöntutkimuksen valossa" . Virittäjä (in Finnish) (2). Academia.edu : 2.
^ Waldman, Carl; Mason, Catherine (2006). Encyclopedia of European Peoples . p. 521. time period:Ninth to 16th century c.E.
^ Joseph, Brian ; Klein, Jared; Wenthe, Mark; Fritz, Matthias (11 June 2018). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics . Vol. 3. De Gruyter . pp. 1839– 1840. ISBN 978-3110542431 .
^ Århammar, Nils (October–December 2007). Munske, Horst Haider (ed.). "Das Nordfriesische, eine bedrohte Minderheitensprache in zehn Dialekten: eine Bestandsaufnahme". Sterben die Dialekte aus? Vorträge am Interdisziplinären Zentrum für Dialektforschung an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (in German). University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .
^ "Minoan - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 3 January 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . Circa 1800 and 1450 BC.
^ Post, Rudolf (2004). "Zur Geschichte und Erforschung des Moselromanischen" . Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter . 68 : 1– 35. ISSN 0035-4473 .
^ Blokland, Rogier (2003). The Endangered Uralic Languages . Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. p. 108. ISBN 9027247528 .
^ "FROM PROTO-INDO-EUROPEAN TO MYCENAEAN GREEK:A PHONOLOGICAL STUDY" (PDF) . Archived (PDF) from the original on 12 May 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . ... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
^ "Mysian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 16 February 2022. Retrieved 3 February 2025 . Before 1st Century AD.
^ "iso639-3/nrc" . Retrieved 27 February 2024 . An ancient language, spoken in the Balkans from the 4th century BC - ca. 100 AD.
^ North-western European language evolution: NOWELE , vols. 50–51 (Odense University Press, 2007), p. 240
^ "The North Picene Language" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2024 . 1st millennium BC.
^ The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (David Crystal, editor); Cambridge University Press, 1987; p. 303: "The Isle of Man was wholly Manx-speaking until the 18th century... the last mother-tongue speakers died in the late 1940s"
^ Matteo Calabrese (2021). "The sacred law from Tortora" . Academia.edu . pp. 281– 339. Retrieved 10 October 2024 . Datable between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century B.C., the inscription from Tortora is an Oenotrian text,
^ "A HISTORY OF THE PRONOMINAL DECLENSION IN THE NOVGOROD DIALECT OF OLD RUSSIAN FROM THE ELEVENTH-CENTURY TO THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY" . ProQuest . Retrieved 9 April 2024 . the 11th century, to the end of the 15th century
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^ Schrijver, Peter (2016). "Oscan love of Rome" . Glotta . 92 (1): 223– 226. doi :10.13109/glot.2016.92.1.223 . ISSN 0017-1298 . Page 2 in the online version.
^ "Paelignian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 23 March 2020. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . Very few inscriptions exist, all from the 1st century BC.
^ Alexandru Magdearu (2001). Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Bibliotheca Rerum Transsylvaniae (ed.). Românii în opera Notarului Anonim (in Romanian). Vol. 27.
^ "Pecheneg" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 13 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . 7th - 12th centuries AD.
^ Swain, Simon; Adams, J. Maxwell; Janse, Mark (2002). Bilingualism in Ancient Society: Language Contact and the Written Word . Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. p. 252. ISBN 0-19-924506-1 . The last mention of Phrygian in use dates from the fifth century AD.
^ Wormald, Jenny (25 August 2005). Scotland: A History . Oxford University Press . pp. 28– 32. ISBN 0198206151 .
^ Kapović, Mate (2008), Uvod u indoeuropsku lingvistiku [An introduction to Indo-European linguistics ] (in Croatian), Zagreb : Matica hrvatska , p. 109, ISBN 978-953-150-847-6
^ "Балтийские языки" . lingvarium.org (in Russian). Retrieved 28 March 2025 .
^ Piwowarczyk, Dariusz R. (2011). "Formations of the perfect in the Sabellic languages with the Italic and Indo-European background" (PDF) . Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis (128): 105. Retrieved 10 October 2024 . ...and Pre-Samnite (500 BC).
^ "Punic" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2024 . 1st Millennium BC - 600 AD.
^ "Script" . Thesaurus Inscriptionum Raeticarum. Retrieved 4 June 2024 . Magrè-alphabet finds dated to the middle and/or late La Tène period, apart from the above-mentioned ones from the area of Verona, are the Magrè antler pieces, the inscriptions from Bostel, IT-2 from the Inntal, and the Trissino bones. IT-4 is dated by context and may be older than the 1st century BC.
^ Bakker, P. & Nielsen, F.S., 2011. Goddeis genter! Mål & mæle, 34(1), pp.13–18.
^ "Russenorsk – A Language Sketch" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 January 2017. Retrieved 2 November 2011 .
^ "Sabine" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 17 April 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2024 . Mid-first millennium BC, perhaps surviving as late as the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
^ The Lingua Franca . Natalie Operstein. 2021.
^ "Selonian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . Survived until 16th century.
^ "Zemgalian : Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe : Blackwell Reference Online" . www.blackwellreference.com . Retrieved 28 June 2017 .
^ "The Sicanian Language" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 8 October 2024 . Pre-Roman times.
^ Joseph, Brian ; Klein, Jared; Wenthe, Mark; Fritz, Matthias (11 June 2018). Handbook of Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics . Vol. 3. De Gruyter . p. 1854. ISBN 978-3110542431 .
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^ Maticsák, Sándor; Zaicz, Gábor; Lahdelma, Tuomo (2001). "REFLECTIONS ON THE VERB SUFFIX -OM IN RUSSENORSK AND SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON "DOCKING" IN LANGUAGE CONTACT" (PDF) . Folia Uralica Debreceniensia 8. : 315– 324. Retrieved 30 August 2024 . Solombala-English, first investigated2 by Broch (1996), probably developed during the "English period" in the history of the city of Archangel, from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
^ "South Picene - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 6th century BC to 4th century BC.
^ "Sudovian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 8 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . Until 16th century?
^ "Tartessian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 20 December 2012. Retrieved 30 January 2024 . c 700 BC - 100 BC.
^ "Thracian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 24 December 2014. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 1st Millennium BC - 500 AD.
^ Koerner, E. F. K. (1 January 1998). First Person Singular III: Autobiographies by North American Scholars in the Language Sciences . John Benjamins Publishing. p. 33. ISBN 978-90-272-4576-2 .
^ "Umbrian" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024 . Mid-first millennium BC, surviving as late as the 1st century BC.
^ Hennings, Thordis (2012). Einführung in das Mittelhochdeutsche [Introduction to Middle High German ] (in German) (3 ed.). Berlin: De Gruyter. p. 26. ISBN 978-3-11-025959-9 .
^ "Vermlannin savolaismurteet" . sokl.uef.fi (in Finnish). 1998. Retrieved 4 November 2024 . Today, Vermland's Savo dialect is dead. The last forest Finns who spoke Finnish well were Johannes Johansson-Oinoinen aka Niittahon Jussi and Karl Persson. They died in 1965 and 1969.
^ Wallace, Rex (2004). "Venetic" . In Woodard, Roger D. (ed.). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages . University of Cambridge . pp. 840– 856. ISBN 0-521-56256-2 . Archived from the original on 8 December 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2023 .
^ "Vestinian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 250-100 BC.
^ "Volscian - MultiTree" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2023 . 3rd century BC.
^ "Wezerfrysk hjoed 63 jier wei | It Nijs" (in Western Frisian). 8 November 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024 .
^ "iso639-3/rmw" . Retrieved 25 June 2024 . Welsh Romani is a variety of the Romani language which was spoken fluently in Wales until at least 1950.
^ "Galindan" . LINGUIST List . Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2024 . Until 14th century.
^ Hickey, Raymond (2023). "3.6.2 The Dialect of Forth and Bargy". The Oxford Handbook of Irish English . Oxford University Press. p. 48. After a period of decline, it was replaced entirely in the early nineteenth century by general Irish English of the region.
^ Kiwitt, Marc; Zwink, Julia. "Judeo-French" . Jewish Languages . Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion . Archived from the original on 13 October 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2022 .
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