Language death
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In linguistics, language death occurs when a language loses its last native speaker. By extension, language extinction is when the language is no longer known, including by second-language speakers, w
Hittite script on a clay tablet
Extinct language
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An extinct language or dead language is a language with no living native speakers. A heritage language, or sometimes a dormant language, is an extinct language that still serves as a symbol of ethnic
A piece of Eteocypriot writing from Amathous, Cyprus, dated c. 500–300 BCE, on display at Ashmolean Museum
Bilingual Latin–Punic inscription at the theatre in Leptis Magna in present-day Libya