Extinct languages of Europe.



Extinct languages of Europe.

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  1. Livonian is actually no longer extinct, it was singlehandedly revived by two parents in Latvia who only spoke Livonian to their child, who was born in 2020.

  2. Eh, I still wish we’d get some Hittite writings or even another very early Indo-European language from a different branch 😉 One thing that keeps me awake at night lol is the fact that we have been able to reconstruct so much from Proto-Indo-European, the oldest known root of most of the languages we speak in Europe nowadays (and Iran and India for that matter). We need more 😀

  3. You’re missing Dacian in Romania, which is the main one there. 
     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacian_language

    Also kinda funny how Britain is the only place where Latin is supposed to be extinct. Pretty sure it’s extinct all across the former Roman Empire.

  4. I would be glad most European languages were extinct and all countries would speak same language.

  5. Cumbric mentioned (likely essentially a dialect Welsh, at least at the time – so arguably not really extinct), but not Pictish? That’s odd.

  6. Quite incorrect positioning for the labels. Livonian should be in North Western Latvia and Laiuse Romani should be in East Central Estonia for example.

    By eyeballing, it seems they’re easily off by 100-200 km.

  7. A British Latin language if the Saxons hadn’t invaded us sounds fascinating to me. Or a Latin/bretonic/celtic mix. A Romance language firmly in potato Europe!

  8. Yet we language extinction in the present as a great tragedy that we must act to prevent….

  9. I wouldn’t call frankish dead. It just spread into a lot of different dialects.
    nether-frankish for example.

  10. WTF. Bohemian means literally Czech.

    Or the creator of the map means the Celtic tribe of Boii, who gave the name to Bavarians and the Latin name to Czechs? Well, it was extinct in the 1st century AD, which is confusing in the context of how the name has been used from the very early Middle Ages until today.

  11. All my grandparents are from the Jászság and has Jász (Jassic) origins. So sad we didn’t have the chance to learn that the dialect.

  12. The Cuman or Kipchak language has split into dialects and now constitutes the largest branch among the Turkic languages.

    Khazar has disappeared completely, but its related Chuvash language, which is a direct descendant of Old Bulgarian, has survived.

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