List of extinct languages

## Origin Uncertain

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* Sumerian probably afroasiaotic
* Kassite
* Elamite
* Ancient Iberian (of Iberian Peninsula)
* Tartessian
* Aquitanian
* Etruscan
* Lemnian
* Raetic
* Minoan (or Linear A of Crete)
* Hattic
* Meroitic

## Indo-European Languages

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#### Anatolian Languages (All Extinct)

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* Cuneiform Hittite
* Hieroglyphic Hittite
* Luwian
* Palaian
* Lydian
* Lycian
* Carian

#### Indo-Iranian Languages

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* Avestan
* Ancient Persian (Cuneiform Persian)
* Pahlavi (Middle Persian)

#### Italic Languages

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* Latin
* Oscian
* Umbrian
* Venetic
* Lombardian
* Livonian

#### Ancient Languages of Balkans

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* Phrygian
* Macedonian (Not to be confused with modern Macedonian of Slavic Group)
* Thracian
* Illyrian
* Dacian

#### Celtic Languages

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* British
* Pictish

## Hurro-Urartian Languages

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* Hurrian
* Urartian

## Afroasiatic Languages

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* Akkadian
* Babylonian( scientists have uncovered some of the language and are speaking it)
* Aramaic (Assyrians are one of the few left)
* Ugaritic
* Phoenician
* Ancient Egyptian