NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of extinct languages

This is a list of languages that underwent language death and currently have no native speakers. For historical forms of languages that evolved into more modern forms, see historical language. In linguistics, language death (also language extinction, linguistic extinction) can be thought of as a process that affects speech communities where the level of linguistic competence that speakers possess of a given language idiom is decreased. ... First language (native language, mother tongue, or vernacular) is the language a person learns first. ... Languages that were spoken in a historical period may evolve into later forms (like Ancient Greek into Modern Greek), or they may undergo language death and become extinct. ...

Africa

Angola

Cameroon

The Yeni language is an extinct language of Cameroon, formerly spoken around Djeni Mountain in the Nyalang area. ...

Chad

Côte d'Ivoire

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Egypt

Ebers Papyrus detailing treatment of asthma Records of the Ancient Egyptian language have been dated about 3000 BC. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic group of languages and is related to Berber and Semitic (languages such as Arabic and Hebrew). ... The Coptic language is the last phase of the Egyptian languages, and is the direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language written in the hieroglyphic, hieratic, and demotic scripts. ...

Eritrea

The Geez language (or Giiz language) is an ancient language that developed in the Ethiopian Highlands of the Horn of Africa as the language of the peasantry. ...

Ethiopia

The Gafat language is an extinct Semitic language that was once spoken along the Abbay River in Ethiopia. ... The Weyto language is believed to be an extinct language formerly spoken in the Lake Tana region of Ethiopia by a small group of hippopotamus hunters who now speak Amharic. ...

Guinea

The Baga languages are five related languages spoken in the coastal region of Guinea by the Baga. ...

Kenya

The Mukogodo-Maasai (formerly Yaaku) are a people living in the Mukogodo Division of the Laikipia District of Rift Valley Province, Kenya. ...

Nigeria

South Africa

//Xegwi is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, near the South African-Swazi border. ... /Xam is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa, part of the !Kwi language group. ... Seroa is an extinct Khoisan language of South Africa and Lesotho. ...

Sudan

Tanzania

Tunisia

Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ... Sened is a small town in central Tunisia northwest of Gabes, and is also the name of the extinct Berber language that was spoken there and at the nearby town of Tmagourt until the mid-twentieth century. ... Vandalic was a Germanic language probably closely related to the Gothic language. ...

Uganda

The Americas

Argentina

AbipÃ³n is an native American language of the Mataco-Guaycuru family that was at one time spoken in Argentina. ... ChanÃ© language is an extinct language of Argentina and Bolivia. ... YagÃ¡n, also known as YÃ¡mana, Yaghan, and HÃ¡usi KÃºta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the YagÃ¡n people. ...

Bahamas

Bolivia

Brazil

Tupi Antigo (or Tupinamba) is a extinct language which was spoken by Indian tribesmen in the coast of Brazil. ...

Canada

Pre-contact distribution of Beothuk language The Beothuk language (also Beothukan) was the language spoken by the Beothuk indigenous people of Newfoundland. ... Bungee (also Bungi, Bungie, Bungay, or The Red River Dialect) was spoken in western Canada by MÃ©tis descendended from Scottish and Cree voyageurs. ... The Tsetsaut language (also Tsetsaut) was an Athabascan language spoken in Alaska and Canada. ... Wyandot is the Iroquoian language traditionally spoken by the people known variously as Wyandot, Wendat, or Huron. ...

Chile

KawÃ©sqar (also Qawasqar, Alacaluf, Halakwulup, Kaweskar, Alakaluf, Kawaskar, Kawesqar, Qawashqar, Halakwalip, Hekaine, Kaueskar, AksanÃ¡s) is a language isolate spoken in southern Argentina and Chile by the KawÃ©sqar people. ...

Colombia

An extinct language of Colombia Alternate names: Muisca, Mosca Classification: Chibchan, Chibchan Proper Language use: The Chibcha people are still located near the towns of Tocancipa, Cota, Gachancipa and Tenjo. ... Tama is also an alternate name for the Nama language of southern Africa. ...

Costa Rica

Dominica

Ecuador

TetetÃ© is an endangered Tucanoan language spoken in Ecuador close to the Ecuador-Colombia border. ...

El Salvador

Cacaopera is an extinct language belonging to the Misumalpan family, formerly spoken in the department of MorazÃ¡n in El Salvador. ...

Guatemala

Guyana

Mexico

Tubar or Tubare, is an extinct language of Mexico that belonged to the Uto-Aztecan language family. ...

Nicaragua

Matagalpa is an extinct Misumalpan language formerly spoken in the central highlands of Nicaragua. ...

Paraguay

Peru

Puquina is an extinct language, which was spoken by the ancient Inca in the region surrounding Lake Titicaca and in the north of what is now Chile. ... Remo (also Sakuya, Sacuya, Kukuini, Cucuini) is an extinct Panoan language formerly spoken in Brazil and Amazonas, Peru. ...

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

U.S. Virgin Islands

Negerhollands is a Zeeuws creole that was once spoken in the Danish West Indies, now known as the U.S. Virgin Islands. ...

United States

Adai (also Adaizan, Adaizi, Adaise, Adahi, Adaes, Adees, Atayos) is the name of a people and language that was spoken in eastern Louisiana. ... History This group is probably extinct, though a few members may be mixed in with the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz, where the remaining members were relocated. ... Pre-contact distribution of the Atakapa language Atakapa is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and nearby eastern Texas. ... Cayuse & Sahaptin Tribal Representatives to Washington D.C. (1890) Cayuse Umapine (Wakonkonwelasonmi), a Cayuse chief, September, 1909 The Cayuse are a Native American tribe in the state of Oregon in the United States. ... Pre-contact distribution of Chimariko Chimariko is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in Trinity County in northwestern California by Chimariko peoples. ... The Chitimacha (also Chitimachan, Chetimacha) are a Native American group that lives in the U.S. state of Louisiana, mainly in St. ... Coquille (tribe) is a Native American tribe in southwest Oregon in the United States. ... The Esselen were the Native American inhabitants of what is now known as Big Sur on the Central Coast of California. ... Jersey Dutch was a variant of the Dutch language spoken in and around Bergen and Passaic counties in New Jersey from the late 1600s until the early 20th century. ... Karkin was a Costanoan language that was spoken in northern California by Costanoans. ... The Mahicans (also Mohicans) are a Native American tribe who were living in and around the Hudson Valley at the time of their first contact with Europeans in 1609. ... Marthas Vineyard Sign Language was a signed language that developed in Marthas Vineyard, Massachusetts, because of the extremely high percentage of deaf people living there (1 out of 155, compared to 1 out of 6,000 for the general United States population, with 1 out of 4 people... The Miami language is a Native American language formerly spoken in the United States, primarily in northern Indiana and Ohio by members of the Miami tribe. ... The Mobilian language was a trade language used as a lingua franca among Native American groups living along the Gulf of Mexico around the time of European settlement of the region. ... The Mohegans are a Native American tribe that formerly inhabitated eastern Connecticut. ... The Molala (also Molale, Molalla, Molele) were a people of the Plateau culture area in central Oregon. ... Nanticoke is the name of two places in the United States: Nanticoke in New York Nanticoke in Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Narragansett tribe, or more accurately Nahahiganseck Sovereign Nation, are a Native American tribe who controlled the area surrounding Narragansett Bay in present-day Rhode Island, and also portions of Connecticut, and eastern Massachusetts. ... Pre-contact distribution of Natchez peoples Although suffering a turbulent history since European contact, the Natchez Nation still represents a vital part of the United States Native American community. ... Piro (also Mashco Piro, Cujareno, CujareÃ±o, Mashco) is a Southern Maipurean language (Southern Outlier branch) spoken in Brazil and Peru. ... The Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten) were a very powerful confederacy of Native American tribes, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first English-Native encounters. ... Quiripi is the name of a Native American language of the Algonquin language family, specifically the Algonquin-Mosan branch. ... Takelma was the language spoken by the Takelma people. ... Tillamook is an extinct Salishan language, formerly spoken by the Tillamook tribe in northwestern Oregon, USA. // Phonology Vowels Consonants The rounded consonants, including , are not labializedâ€”the effect is created entirely inside the mouth, by cupping the tongue. ... The Tonkawa are a people native to eastern Texas. ... The Tunica (or Tonica) language was a language isolate spoken in present-day Louisiana in the United States. ... This page meets Wikipedias criteria for speedy deletion. ... Wiyot (also Wishosk) is an extinct Algic language. ... Pre-contact distribution of the Yana language Yana is an extinct language isolate formerly spoken in north-central California between the Feather and Pit rivers in what is now Shasta and Tehama counties. ... Yaquina is now a place-name native of the American state of Oregon. ...

Venezuela

Asia

China

The Jurchens (Chinese: 女真, pinyin: nǚzhēn) were a Tungus people who inhabited parts of Manchuria and northern Korea until the seventeenth century, when they became the Manchus. ... Tocharian is one of the most obscure branches of the Indo-European language group. ...

Korea

Russia

The Hunnic language is a proto-Altaic language, related to many modern day Turkic languages and to a lesser extent to Hungarian, that was spoken by the Huns. ... Language spoken by the medieval Khazar tribe. ...

India

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 title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Prakrit (Sanskrit prakrta: natural, usual, vulgar) refers to the broad family of the Indic languages and dialects spoken in ancient India. ... The Sanskrit language (Skt. ... The Sanskrit language (Skt. ...

Near East and Middle East

Anatolia

Grabar meaning literary, Armenian was very developed by the time it came to be written down at the beginning of the 5th century. ... The Phrygian language was the Indo-European language of the Phrygians, a people who probably migrated from Thrace to Asia Minor in the Bronze Age. ... 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. ... The Carian language was the language of the Carians. ... The Hittite language is the dead language once spoken by the Hittites, a people who once created an empire centered on ancient Hattusa (modern BoÄŸazkÃ¶y) in north-central Anatolia (modern Turkey). ... Luwian (sometimes spelled Luvian) is part of the Anatolian branch of the Indo European language family and has been preserved in three forms: (1) Cuneiform Luwian, (2) Hieroglyphic-Luwian and (3), the somewhat later Lycian. ... Lycian was an Indo-European language, one of the Anatolian languages, that was spoken in the Iron age region of Lycia in Anatolia, present day Turkey. ... Lydian was an Indo-European language, one of the Anatolian languages, that was spoken in the state of Lydia in Anatolia, present day Turkey. ... The Mysi (Mysians) were the eponymous inhabitants of Mysia, a region in northwest Asia Minor. ... Palaic was one of the Anatolian languages, and as such a sister language of Hittite. ... Hattic was a non-Indo-European language spoken in Asia Minor between the 3rd and the 2nd millennia BC, before the appearance of the Hittites. ... Urartian is the conventional name for the language spoken by the inhabitants of the ancient kingdom of Urartu in Northeast Anatolia (present Turkey), in the region of Lake Van. ... Galatian is an extinct Celtic language once spoken in Galatia in Asia Minor (modern Turkey) from the 3rd century BC up to the 4th century AD. Of the language only a few glosses and brief comments in classical writers and scattered names on inscriptions survive. ...

Arabia

Minaean was a kingdom in Southwestern Arabia from approximately 1200 BC until 650 bc, centred on what is now Yemen. ... Petra, the Nabataean capital The Nabataeans, a people of ancient Arabia, whose settlements in the time of Josephus gave the name of Nabatene to the border-land between Syria and Arabia from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. ... Old South Arabian is a geographic term for four closely related languages spoken in the southern portion of the Arabian Peninsula. ... The Sabey language was a language and alphabet used in Ethiopia up until the 8th Century AD. The Sabay language was replaced by the Geez language and writing system. ...

Caucasus

Iranian Plateau

Yasna 28. ... Elamite is an extinct language, which was spoken in the ancient Elamite Empire. ... Sketch of the first column of the Behistun Inscription Old Persian is the oldest attested Persid language. ... The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian Empire to write down Middle Persian for secular, as well as religious purposes. ...

Levant

The Ammonite language is the extinct Canaanite language of the Ammonite people mentioned in the Bible, who used to live in modern-day Jordan, and after whom its capital Amman is named. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a 3,000-year history. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the land called Canaan. ... Ebla was an ancient city located in northern Syria, about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. ... The Edomite language is the extinct Hebrew Canaanite language of the Edomites in southwestern Jordan in the first millennium BC. It is known only from a very small corpus. ... The Moabite language is an extinct Hebrew Canaanite dialect, spoken in Moab (modern-day northwestern Jordan) in the early first millennium BC. Most of our knowledge about Moabite comes from the Mesha Stele, as well as the El-Kerak Stela; this is sufficient to show that it was extremely similar... Phoenician was a language originally spoken in the coastal region of what is now Lebanon. ... The Ugaritic language is known to us only in the form of writings found in the lost city of Ugarit in Syria since its discovery by French archaeologists in 1928. ...

Mesopotamia

Akkadian (liÅ¡Änum akkadÄ«tum) was a Semitic language (part of the greater Afro-Asiatic language famaily) spoken in ancient Mesopotamia, particularly by the Assyrians and Babylonians. ... The Amorite language is the term used for the early (North-)West Semitic language, spoken by the north Semitic Amorite tribes prominent in early Middle Eastern history. ... Hurrian is a conventional name for the language of the Hurrians, a people who entered northern Mesopotamia around 2300 BC and had mostly vanished by 1000 BC. Hurrian is an agglutinative language which belongs to neither the Semitic nor the Indo-European language families. ... The Sumerian language of ancient Sumer was spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BC. Sumerian was replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language around 2000 BC, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial and scientific language in Mesopotamia until about 1 AD. Then, it...

Europe

Balkans

The Dacian language was an Indo-European language spoken by the ancient people of Dacia. ... Dalmatian is an extinct Romance language formerly spoken along the Dalmatian coast of Croatia and as far south as Kotor in Montenegro. ... The Illyrian languages are a group of Indo-European languages that were spoken in the western part of the Balkans 1 in former times by ethnic groups identified as Illyrians: Delmatae, Pannoni, Illyrioi, Autariates, Taulanti (see List of Illyrian tribes). ... The Liburnian language is an extinct language which was spoken by the ancient Liburnians, who occupied Liburnia in classical times. ... The Paionian language is the poorly attested language of the ancient Paionians, whose kingdom once stretched north of Macedon into Thrace. ... The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in ancient times by the Thracians. ...

France

Aquitanian language was spoken in ancient Aquitaine (approximately between the Pyrenees and the Garonne), region later known as Gascony before the Roman conquest and, probably much later until the Upper Middle Ages. ... Gaulish is the name given to the Celtic language that was spoken in Gaul before the Vulgar Latin of the late Roman Empire became dominant in Roman Gaul. ... Old French is a term sometimes used to refer to the langue doÃ¯l, the continuum of varieties of Romance language spoken in territories corresponding roughly to the northern half of modern France and parts of Belgium and Switzerland during the period roughly from 1000 to 1300 A.D... Middle French (le moyen français) is a historical division of the French language which covers the period from (roughly) 1340 to 1610. ...

Greece

The Ancient Macedonian language (provisional ISO-DIS 639-3. ... Greek (Greek Î•Î»Î»Î·Î½Î¹ÎºÎ¬, IPA â€“ Hellenic) is an Indo-European language with a documented history of 3,500 years. ... The Eteocretan (i. ... Ancient Greek writers used the name Pelasgians (Gk. ... The Lemnian language is the language of a 6th century BC inscription found on a funerary stela on the island of Lemnos (termed the Lemnos stele, discovered in 1885 near Kaminia). ... Yevanic, otherwise known as Yevanika, Romaniote and Judeo-Greek, was the language of the Romaniotes, the group of Greek Jews whose existence in Greece is documented since the 4th century BCE. Its linguistic lineage stems from Attic Greek and the Hellenistic Koine (Κοινή Ελληνική) and includes Hebrew elements as well. ...

Italy

The Elymian people (Greek Elymoi, Latin Elymi) were an ancient civilization located in Sicily. ... Etruscan was a language spoken and written in the ancient region of Etruria (current Tuscany) and in parts of what are now Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia-Romagna (where the Etruscans were displaced by Gauls), in Italy. ... The Falisci were an ancient Italian tribe. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Lepontic is an extinct Celtic language that was once spoken in Northern Italy between 700 BCE and 400 BCE. The language is only known from a few inscriptions discovered that were written in a variety of the Northern Italic alphabet, which was related to the Old Italic alphabet. ... The Ligurian language was spoken in pre-Roman times and into the Roman era by an ancient people of north-western Italy and south-eastern France known as the Liguri. ... Messapian (also known as Messapic) is an extinct Indo-European language of South-Eastern Italy, in the regions of Apulia and Calabria. ... Oscan, the language of the Osci, is in the Sabellic branch of the Italic language family, which is a branch of Indo-European and includes Umbrian, Latin and Faliscan. ... Raetian was a language spoken in ancient times by the tribes of the Raetians in the areas around the Alps (in Switzerland, Austria, North-Eastern Italy and Southern Germany). ... The Sicani (or Sikanoi) were an ancient people of Italy who dwelt along the Tiber river. ... Sicel was an ancient language spoken by the Sicels (Greek Sikeloi, Latin Siculi), one of the three indigenous (i. ... Umbrian, an Indo-European language of the Italic family, is a dead language formerly spoken in Umbria, Italy. ... Venetic is an extinct Indo-European language that was spoken in ancient times in the central Europe from modern Slovak and Sloven territory, Histria, the southern fringe of the Alps, to the Po River delta. ... Volscian was a Sabellic Italic language, which was spoken by the Volsci and closely related to Oscan and Umbrian, but also to Latin, more distantly. ...

British Isles

The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or Common Celtic, spoken by ancient and modern Celts alike. ... Cumbric was the Brythonic Celtic language centred in Cumbria, and spoken from southern lowland Scotland south to Yorkshire until about the 11th century. ... Proto-Irish (or Primitive Irish) is the oldest known form of the Irish language, known only from fragments, mostly personal names, inscribed on stone in the Ogham alphabet in Ireland and western Britain up to about the 4th century. ... Old Irish is the name given to the oldest form of the Irish language which can be, more or less, fully reconstructed from extant sources. ... The Picts inhabited Caledonia (Scotland), north of the River Forth. ... Southwestern Brythonic is one of two dialects into which the Brythonic language split following the Battle of Deorham in 577 CE; the other being Western Brythonic, which later evolved into Welsh and Cumbric. ... The Cornish language (in Cornish: Kernowek, Kernewek, Curnoack) is one of the Brythonic group of Celtic languages that includes Welsh, Breton, the extinct Cumbric and perhaps the hypothetical Ivernic. ... The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century. ... Middle English is the name given to an early form of the English language that was in common use from roughly the 12th to the 15th centuries— from after the Norman invasion by William the Conqueror in 1066 to around the introduction of the printing press by William Caxton in... Norn is an extinct North Germanic language that was spoken on the Shetland Islands and Orkney Islands, off the coast of Scotland. ... The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages or New Latin languages, are a subset of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Latin dialects spoken by the common people in what is known as Latin Europe (Italian/Portuguese/Spanish Europa latina, Catalan Europa llatina, French Europe latine, Romanian Europa... The Anglo-Norman language is the name given to the variety of Norman spoken by the Anglo-Normans, the descendants of the Normans who ruled England following the conquest by William of Normandy in 1066. ... Auregnais or Aurignais was the Norman dialect of the Channel Island of Alderney (French:Aurigny, Auregnais:Aoeurgny/Auregny). ...

Northern and Central Europe

The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family. ... The Burgundians or Burgundes were an East Germanic tribe which may have emigrated from mainland Scandinavia to the island of Bornholm, whose old form in Old Norse still was Burgundarholmr (the Island of the Burgundians), and from here to mainland Europe. ... Linguistically speaking, Middle Dutch is no more than a collective name for closely related languages or dialects which were spoken and written between about 1150 and 1500 in the present-day Dutch-speaking region. ... Old Frisian was the West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries by the people who, from their ancient homes in North Germany and Denmark, had settled in the area between the Rhine and Elbe on the European North Sea coast in the 4th and 5th centuries. ... The Gothic language (*gutiska razda, *ðŒ²ðŒ¿ð„ðŒ¹ðƒðŒºðŒ° ð‚ðŒ°ðŒ¶ðŒ³ðŒ°) is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths and specifically by the Visigoths. ... Old High German is the earliest recorded form of the modern German language, and was spoken from the middle of the 9th to the end of the 11th century. ... Middle High German is an ancestor of the modern German language, and was spoken from 1050 to about 1500. ... This is the approximate extent of Old Norse and related languages in the early 10th century. ... Vandalic was a Germanic language probably closely related to the Gothic language. ... Southwestern Brythonic is one of two dialects into which the Brythonic language split following the Battle of Deorham in 577 CE; the other being Western Brythonic, which later evolved into Welsh and Cumbric. ... The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. ... Sudovian (otherwise known as Jatvingian or Yotvingian) is an extinct western Baltic language of north-eastern Europe. ... Old Prussian is an extinct Baltic language spoken by the inhabitants of the area that later became East Prussia (now in north-eastern Poland, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad oblast of Russia) prior to Polish and German colonization of the area beginning in the 13th century. ... Galindan is a poorly attested extinct language, generally considered to be part of the Baltic language family. ... The Baltic languages are a group of related languages belonging to the Indo-European language family and spoken mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. ... The term Curonian language may refer to two different, but genetically related Baltic languages. ... Selonian was a language appertaining to the Baltic languages group of the Indo-European languages family. ... Semigallian is an extinct language appertaining to the Baltic languages sub-family of Indo-European languages. ... The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia. ... The Polabian language, which became extinct in the 18th century, was a group of Slavic dialects spoken in present-day northern Germany: Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, eastern parts of Lower Saxony, and Schleswig-Holstein. ... Stefan RamuÅ‚ts Dictionary of the Pomeranian (Kashubian) language, published in KrakÃ³w, 1893 Pomeranian is a group of Lechitic dialects which were spoken in the Middle Ages on the territory of Pomerania, between the Odra and Vistula rivers. ... Knaanic (also called Canaanic, Leshon Knaan or Judeo-Slavic) was a West Slavic language, formerly spoken in the Czech lands, now the Czech Republic. ... The name Old Russian language has been applied to different things. ...

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian language describes a linguistic group identified with the Iberian civilization (7th century BC - 1st century BC), formed in the eastern and south-eastern regions of the Iberian peninsula. ... The Tartessian language is seemingly unrelated to all other languages, including Indo-European or Iberian language families, and is therefore considered a language isolate. ... Celtiberian (also Hispano-Celtic) is an extinct Celtic language spoken by the Celtiberians in northern Spain before and during the Roman Empire. ... The Lusitanian language (so named after the Lusitani or Lusitanians) was a paleo-Iberian Indo-European language known by five inscriptions and numerous names of places (toponyms) and of gods (theonyms). ... Aquitanian language was spoken in ancient Aquitaine (approximately between the Pyrenees and the Garonne), region later known as Gascony before the Roman conquest and, probably much later until the Upper Middle Ages. ... Mozarabic was a continuum of closely related Iberian Romance dialects spoken in Muslim dominated areas of the Iberian Peninsula during the early stages of the Romance languages development in Iberia. ...

Oceania

The Australian Aboriginal languages comprise several language families and isolates native to Australia and a few nearby islands, but by convention excluding Tasmania. ... The Wiradhuric languages or Central Inland New South wales subgroup form one of the subgroups of the Pama-Nyungan family of Australian Aboriginal languages. ... The Tasmanian languages are a group of aborigine languages spoken in the island of Tasmania, Australia, extinct by 1877. ...

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