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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.
Language/dialect | Family | Date of extinction | Region | Ethnic group |
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Cornish | Indo-European | 1700s AD[121] | Cornwall | Cornish people |
Livonian | Uralic | 2 June 2013 AD[122] | Livonian Coast | Livonians |
Ludza | Uralic | 2006 AD[123] | Latgale | Ludza Estonians |
Manx | Indo-European | 27 December 1974 AD[124] | Isle of Man | Manx people |
Old Prussian | Indo-European | 1700s AD[125] | Prussia | Old Prussians |
Wangerooge Frisian | Indo-European | 22 November 1950 AD[126] | Wangerooge | Wangerooge Frisians |
5th to 3rd centuries BC.
Survived until the early 1st millennium AD.
12th - 15th centuries AD.
... Séamus Bhriain Mac Amhlaigh, last native Irish speaker in the Glens of Antrim who died on the 25th February, 1983.
The reputedly last native speaker of Arran Gaelic, Donald Craig (1899–1977)...
The last native speaker of Alderney French, a Norman dialect spoken in the Channel Islands, died around 1960.
...translation of two manuscripts written in Iceland in the seventeenth century. Since the contact situation was interrupted in the first part of the eighteenth century and was of intermittent nature, the contact pidgin probably never developed much further than the stage recorded in the manuscripts.
In Central Europe, the extermination in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was so thorough that the Bohemian Romani language became extinct.
13th century AD.
Survived until the second half of first millennium BC.
Circa 175 BC to 100 AD.
The development of the Classical tradition on the subject of the Cimmerians after their disappearance from the historical arena, no later than the very end of the 7th or very beginning of the 6th century BC
ca. 150-50 BC
István Varró, a member of the Jász-Cuman mission to the empress of Austria Maria Theresa and the known last speaker of the Cuman language, died in 1770.
1st Millennium BC - 500 AD.
2nd half of 1st Millennium BC.
An ancient language of Crete, 4th-3rd centuries BC.
An ancient language of Cyprus, up to 4th C BC.
650 - 100 BC.
The last native Gaelic speaker was said to be Margaret McMurray of Cultezron, near Maybole, who died at an advanced age in 1760
Two inscriptions identified thus far, dating to first millennium BC.
time period:Fourth to fifth century c.E.
2nd half of 1st Millennium BC - 1st half of 1st Millennium AD.
...the Istrian-Albanian language "died" in the nineteenth century
15th century AD?
It's estimated that it was still used until the beginning of the 19th century.
...the Jewish-Venetian dialect that survived into the 20th century.
...Kainuu Sámi (used until 16th–18th century in the area of the Forest Sámi people in central Finland and in the Republic of Karelia).
Extinct now for over 100 years, few written examples of Kemi Sami survive.
6th - 12th century AD.
c. 700 - 1600 AD.
...the last speaker of Kraasna most likely died before World War II.
Material from 15th-19th centuries AD.
Indeed, by 1994, reportedly only 12 people used some 200 Lachoudish words. The dialect Lachoudish had its day; it is now extinct
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.
An ancient language of the Greek island of Lemnos. Until perhaps 400 BC.
c. 600 BC - 1 BC.
Roman period.
300 BC- 100 AD.
4th - 9th century AD.
2nd Century AD.
300-150 BC.
The tablet seems to have dated to the mid 3rd century BC.
time period:Ninth to 16th century c.E.
Circa 1800 and 1450 BC.
... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
An ancient language, spoken in the Balkans from the 4th century BC - ca. 100 AD.
1st millennium BC.
Datable between the end of the 6th and the beginning of the 5th century B.C., the inscription from Tortora is an Oenotrian text,
the 11th century, to the end of the 15th century
Very few inscriptions exist, all from the 1st century BC.
7th - 12th centuries AD.
The last mention of Phrygian in use dates from the fifth century AD.
...and Pre-Samnite (500 BC).
1st Millennium BC - 600 AD.
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.
Mid-first millennium BC, perhaps surviving as late as the 3rd or 2nd century BC.
Survived until 16th century.
Pre-Roman times.
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.
6th century BC to 4th century BC.
Until 16th century?
c 700 BC - 100 BC.
1st Millennium BC - 500 AD.
Mid-first millennium BC, surviving as late as the 1st century BC.
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.
250-100 BC.
3rd century BC.
Welsh Romani is a variety of the Romani language which was spoken fluently in Wales until at least 1950.
Until 14th century.
After a period of decline, it was replaced entirely in the early nineteenth century by general Irish English of the region.
The last speaker of Lutsi, Nikolājs Nikonovs, died in 2006.