Extinct languages Extinct languages Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is the name of a people and language that was spoken in eastern Louisiana and were a Southeastern culture of Native Americans. The name Adai is derived from the Caddo word hadai meaning 'brushwood'. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adai"
The Ahom language was spoken by the Ahom people who ruled most of Assam from the 13th century until the British occupation in 1838. The apex of Ahom rule was reached under King Rudra Singh (1696–1714). ...more on Wikipedia about "Ahom language"
The Anatolian languages are a group of extinct languages, either Indo-European or (in some classifications) closely related to Indo-European, which were spoken in Asia Minor, including Hittite. Other Anatolian languages include Luwian (the language of the script commonly called " Hieroglyphic Hittite") and Palaic. Lydian, Lycian, Pisidian, Sidetic, and Carian are later Anatolian languages that are known from a number of inscriptions; no extended texts survive in them. Other possible Anatolian languages include Mysian, Cappadocian, and Paphlagonian. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anatolian languages"
Apalachee (apparently a Choctaw name, = "people on the other side") were a Southeastern culture of Native Americans of Muskhogean stock that lived in Florida. They have been known since the 16th century, and formerly ranged the country around Apalachee Bay, Florida. The Apalachee spoke a now- extinct Muskogean language, documented by letters written in the Spanish Colonial period. ...more on Wikipedia about "Apalachee"
Atakapa is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby eastern Texas. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atakapa language"
Atsugewi is a moribund Palaihnihan language of northeastern California spoken by the Atsugewi people. As of 1962, there were four speakers out of an ethnic group of 200, all elderly. Possibly extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Atsugewi language"
Auregnais or Aurignais was the Norman dialect of the Channel Island of Alderney ( French: Aurigny, Auregnais: Aoeur'gny/Auregny). ...more on Wikipedia about "Auregnais"
Basay was formerly spoken in the plains area of Northern Taiwan by the Basay tribe. The language is most closely related to the East Formosan group. The language is extinct. ...more on Wikipedia about "Basay language"
The Beothuk language (also Beothukan) was the language spoken by the Beothuk indigenous people of Newfoundland. ...more on Wikipedia about "Beothuk language"
British was an ancient Celtic language spoken in much of southern and central Britain, up to the central lowlands of Scotland. ...more on Wikipedia about "British language (Celtic)"
The Calusa, sometimes spelled Caloosa or Calosa, were a Native American group that lived on the coast and along the inner waterways of Florida's southwest coast. Calusa territory reached from Charlotte Harbor to Cape Sable, and may have included the Florida Keys at times. Calusa influence and control also extended over other tribes in southern Florida, including the Mayaimis around Lake Mayaimi (now Lake Okeechobee), and the Tequestas and Jaegas on the southeast coast of the peninsula. Calusa influence may have also extended to the Ais tribe on the central east coast of Florida. Calusa is pronounced "ka LOOS a" and means "fierce people". The Calusa tribe is described as warlike. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calusa"
The Catawban (also Eastern Siouan) languages form a small language family in east North America. The Catawban family is a sub-family of the larger Siouan-Catawban family. ...more on Wikipedia about "Catawban languages"
The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in the state of Oregon in the United States. The Cayuse tribe shares a reservation in northeastern Oregon with the Umatilla and the Walla Walla tribes as part of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. The reservation is located near Pendleton, Oregon near the Blue Mountains. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cayuse"
Celtiberian (also Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Celtic language spoken by the Celtiberians in northern Spain before and during the Roman Empire. Very little remains of the Celtiberian language, which is attested in some pre-Roman placenames in the Iberian peninsula that survived long enough to be recorded in documents, in the formulas that were used in some personal names (giving hints of grammar), and in some inscriptions on bronze and lead plaques, written in the Celtiberian script that combines Phoenician and Greek characteristics. Enough has been preserved to show that the Celtiberian language was Q-Celtic (like Goidelic), and not P-Celtic like Gaulish (Mallory 1989, p. 106). Since Brythonic is P-Celtic too, but as an Insular Celtic language more closely related to Goidelic than to Gaulish, it follows that the P/Q division is paraphyletic: The change from kw to p occurred in Brythonic and Gaulish at a time when they were already separate languages, rather than constituting a division that marked a separate branch in the "family tree" of the Celtic languages. A change from PIE kw (q) to p also occurred in some Italic languages: compare Oscan pis, pid ("who, what?") with Latin quis, quid. Celtiberian and Gaulish are usually grouped together as the Continental Celtic languages, but this grouping too is paraphyletic: no evidence suggests the two shared any common innovation separately from Insular Celtic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Celtiberian language" This article is made for www.shortopedia.com
The Chagatai language is an extinct Turkic language which ...more on Wikipedia about "Chagatai language"
Chemakum (English pronunciation: [ˈʧɛməkəm]) (also written as Chimakum or Chimacum) were a Native American group that once lived on western Washington state's Olympic Peninsula. The Chemakum spoke a language very similar to the Quileute language, which is now effectively a language isolate. This is because the Chemakum were wiped out by Chief Seattle and the Suquamish people in warfare during the 1860s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chemakum"
The Chibcha language is an extinct language of Colombia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chibcha language"
Chimariko is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in Trinity County in northwestern California by Chimariko peoples. Speakers lived mostly in a narrow canyon along the Trinity River (approximately a 20-mile section). ...more on Wikipedia about "Chimariko language"
The Chitimacha (also Chitimachan, Chetimacha) are a Native American group that lives in the U.S. state of Louisiana, mainly in St. Mary Parish. They currently number about 720 people. The Chitimacha language, a language isolate, has no known relatives. It is no longer spoken, though it is well documented in the work (mostly unpublished) of the late linguist Morris Swadesh. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chitimacha"
Coahuilteco (also Pajalate) was a language isolate that was spoken in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. ...more on Wikipedia about "Coahuilteco language"
Cotoname is an extinct language isolate spoken by Native Americans indigenous to the lower Rio Grande Valley of northeastern Mexico and extreme southern Texas ( United States). ...more on Wikipedia about "Cotoname language"
The term Curonian language may refer to two different, but genetically related Baltic languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "Curonian language"
Damin (Demiin in the practical orthography) was a ceremonial language used by the advanced initiated men of the Lardil (Leerdil in the practical orthography) tribe on Mornington Island, the largest island of the Wesley Group in the Gulf of Carpentaria. ...more on Wikipedia about "Damin"
Demotic refers to both the ancient Egyptian script derived from northern forms of hieratic used in the Delta, as well as the stage of the Egyptian language following Late Egyptian and preceding Coptic. By convention, the word "Demotic" is captialized in order to distinguish it from Demotic Greek. It should be noted that "Demotic Egyptian" is an artificial term used only on Wikipedia for purposes of clarity; it is not a term used by Demotists or Egyptologists, who refer only to "Demotic." ...more on Wikipedia about "Demotic Egyptian"
Early Modern English is a name for the modern English language the way it was used between the end of Middle English (in the later half of the 1400s) and 1650. Thus, the first edition of the King James Bible and works of William Shakespeare both belong to the late phase of Early Modern English (although the King James Bible intentionally keeps some archaisms that were not common even when it was published). Current readers of English are generally able to understand early modern English, though occasionally with difficulties arising from grammar changes, changes in the meanings of some words, and spelling differences. The standardization of English spelling falls within the Early Modern English period, and is influenced by conventions predating the Great Vowel Shift, explaining the archaic non-phonematic spelling of contemporary Modern English. ...more on Wikipedia about "Early Modern English" My way is www.shortopedia.com
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