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This is a list of extinct languages of Asia, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers, and no spoken descendant.

There are 210 languages listed. 18 from Central Asia, 42 from East Asia, 27 from South Asia, 30 from Southeast Asia, 26 from Siberia and 67 from West Asia.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (March 2024)

Central Asia

East Asia

South Asia

Southeast Asia

Siberia

West Asia

See also

• List of languages by time of extinction
• List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe
• Languages of Asia
• List of endangered languages in Asia

References

1. "Avestan". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 16 April 2014. Retrieved 24 April 2024. 1200 - 800 BC.
2. "Bactrian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 3 October 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-08. 300 BC - 1000 AD.
3. "Volga-Bolgarian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2024. 13th century AD.
4. Melnyk, Mykola (2022). Byzantium and the Pechenegs. István Varró, a member of the Jász-Cuman mission to the empress of Austria Maria Theresa and the known last speaker of the Cuman language, died in 1770.
5. Lindsay, Robert. "Mutual Intelligibility Among the Turkic Languages" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-04-07. This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.
6. Borjian, Habib (2008). The Extinct Language of Gurgān: Its Sources and Origins. p. 681. Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century
7. Waldman, Carl; Mason, Catherine (2006). Encyclopedia of European Peoples. p. 393. time period:Fourth to fifth century c.E.
8. "Inku". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-10-14. Retrieved 2024-10-19. Last speakers probably survived into the 1990s.
9. "Khazar". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 4 February 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024. 6th - 12th century AD.
10. "Chorasmian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 13 May 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-08. 300 BC - 1000 AD.
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12. "Parthian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 24 February 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-05. 300 BC - 1000 AD.
13. Kakar, Hasan Kawun (2014). Government and Society in Afghanistan: The Reign of Amir 'Abd al-Rahman Khan (5 ed.). University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292729001.
14. Dagikhudo, Dagiev; Carole, Faucher (2018). Identity, History and Trans-Nationality in Central Asia. Andreev explains that 100 years ago there was an ancient Vanji language used by people of Vanj valley. He then provides as example that in 1925, when travelling to Vanj Valley, him and his travel companion met an old man who told that, when he was 11 years old, he was speaking Vanji language. Unfortunately, the old man could remember only 20-30 words, but even then, he was not sure if they were all correct.
15. Brenzinger, Matthias (2007). Language Diversity Endangered. ... "Two ... Wot (Wotapuri - Katarqalai). Of the latter we can witness how the process of extinction has moved on inexorably in the course of the twentieth century. In the 1940's Morgenstierne reported that Wot was spoken in two villages in the Katar valley, one at Wotapuri at the confluence of the Pech river with the streams coming from the valley, one further up the valley in Katarqalai. 15 years later Budruss (1960) visited both villages found no speakers of the language in the lower village, Pashto having completely replaced it, and in the upper one only a few passive speakers who remember having spoken the language in their earlier years.
16. "Tokharian A". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2024. c. 7th - 10th centuries AD.
17. ^ Marsh, Mikell Alan (1977). FAVORLANG-PAZEH-SAISIAT: A PUTATIVE FORMOSAN SUBGROUP. p. 2. Taokas and Luilang might also be associated with this FPS subgroup, but available data on these now-extinct languages are too limited to determine this with any surety.
18. "Paekche". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 6 July 2022. Retrieved 2024-03-07. 5th to 7th centuries AD.
19. Laurent Sagart (1995). Cahiers de linguistique - Asie orientale (ed.). "Questions of method in Chinese-tibeto-burman comparison". pp. 245–255. Retrieved 25 November 2024.
20. Andreas Hölzl (2020). "Bala (China) – Language Snapshot". Academia.edu. p. 163. Retrieved 2024-10-09. The Bala language is said to have become extinct in 1982,
21. ^ Martine Robbeets (2020). Oxford University Press (ed.). "Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic". p. 6. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
22. Maitz, Péter; Volker, Craig A. (2017). "Language Contact in the German Colonies: Papua New Guinea and beyond" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-07-14. Kiautschou Pidgin German, which was spoken in the German colony Kiautschou on the coast of China in the early 20th century.
23. "Koguryo". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2 September 2019. Retrieved 2024-04-25. 1st century to mid-8th century A.D.
24. "Kitan". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-08. 916 - 1125 AD.
25. Finke, Peter (1999). "The Kazaks of western Mongolia". In Svanberg, Ingvar (ed.). Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives. London: Curzon. p. 109. ISBN 0-7007-1115-5. Khoton are a small Muslim minority of 6,000. They are settled in Taryalan-sum in the western part of the Uvs-aymag and are thought to have spoken a Turkic language up until the nineteenth century.
26. "Tokharian B". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 15 February 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2024. c. 7th - 10th centuries AD.
27. Guizhou Province Gazetteer: Ethnic Gazetteer (2002). Guiyang: Guizhou Ethnic Publishing House .
28. "Papora-Hoanya". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
29. "The prosodic structure of Pazeh". Retrieved 2024-05-21. Pazeh, an Austronesian language of Taiwan thought to have lost its last speaker in 2010.
30. Savelyev, Alexander; Jeong, Choongwon (7 May 2020). "Early nomads of the Eastern Steppe and their tentative connections in the West". Cambridge University Press. 2. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.18. PMC 7612788. PMID 35663512. the Khüis Tolgoi inscription must have been erected between 604 and 620 AD.
31. "iso639-3/fos". Retrieved 2024-05-21. Siraya is a Formosan language spoken until the end of the 19th century by the indigenous Siraya people of Taiwan.
32. "Taivoan". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-07-03. Retrieved 2024-10-19. The last known speaker died near the end of the 1800s.
33. Alexander Vovin (2017). "Origins of the Japanese Language". Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics. p. 1,6. Retrieved 30 September 2024.
34. "Tangut". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 6 April 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2024. c. 11th - 16th centuries AD.
35. Alexander Vovin (December 2015). "Some notes on the Tuyuhun (吐谷渾) language: in the footsteps of Paul Pelliot". Journal of Sino-Western Communications. 7 (2). Academia.edu: 157–166. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
36. Shimunek, Andrew (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: a Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10855-3. OCLC 993110372.
37. Inoue, Aya (2006). "Grammatical Features of Yokohama Pidgin Japanese: Common Characteristics of Restricted Pidgins" (PDF). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa: 55. Retrieved 19 August 2024. A pidginized variety of Japanese called Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo evolved during the reign of Emperor Meiji from 1868 to 1912, and largely disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century.
38. "Zhang-zhung". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2024. 7th - 10th century AD.
39. Cardona, George; Jain, Dhanesh K. (2003). The Indo-Aryan Languages. p. 164. The inscriptions of Asoka - a king of the Maurya dynasty who reigned, based in his capital Pataliputra, from 268 to 232 BC over almost the whole of India - were engraved in rocks and pillars, in various local dialects.
40. ^ George van Driem (2001), Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-12062-9, ... The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921. The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931. The Akar-Bale of Ritchie's Archipelago, the Aka-Kede of Middle Andaman and the A-Pucikwar of South Andaman Island soon followed. By 1951, the census counted a total of only 23 Greater Andamanese and 10 Sentinelese. That means that just ten men, twelve women and one child remained of the Aka-Kora, Aka-Cari and Aka-Jeru tribes of Greater Andaman and only ten natives of North Sentinel Island ...
41. "Language lost as last member of Andaman tribe dies". The Daily Telegraph. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
42. "Remembering Licho, the Last Speaker of the Sare Language". Terralingua. April 30, 2020. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
43. "The Death of an Indian-born Language". Open Magazine. 28 October 2010. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
44. "The last of Nepal's Dura speakers". BBC. January 15, 2008. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
45. "KHAROSTHI MANUSCRIPTS: A WINDOW ON GANDHARAN BUDDHISM". Retrieved 2024-05-13. ... the Kharosthi script was used as a literary medium, that is, from the time of Asoka in the middle of the third century B.C. until about the third century A.D.
46. "Great Andamanese, Mixed". Ethnologue.
47. "Indus Valley Language". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 2024-06-07. 2500-1900 BC.
48. "The Andamanese". Archived from the original on 20 May 2013. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
49. "The Hindu". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 10 November 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
50. "Malaryan". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-09-17.
51. Jacquesson, François (2017). "The linguistic reconstruction of the past The case of the Boro-Garo languages". Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area. 40 (1). Translated by van Breugel, Seino: 108. doi:10.1075/ltba.40.1.04van. A second more dramatic example is P.R. Gurdon's 1904 article 'The Morans' in the same journal. ... The census returned 78 speakers in 1901, 24 in 1911 and none in 1931.
52. Nagarchal at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
53. "Paisaci Prakrit". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 6 June 2019. Retrieved 2024-03-12. Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD, though it was probably spoken as early as the 5th century BC.
54. George van Driem (May 2007). Matthias Brenzinger (ed.). "Endangered Languages of South Asia". Handbook of Endangered Languages: 303. Retrieved 20 October 2024. Rangkas was recorded in the Western Himalayas as recently as the beginning of the 20th century, but is now extinct.
55. "iso639-3/psu". Retrieved 2024-06-23. Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD...
56. Moseley (2010), p. 201.
57. "Ullatan". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2008-02-08. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
58. "Ata". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2013-05-20. Retrieved 2024-10-19. 2 (Wurm 2000). In 1973, only a few families of speakers were reported. Probably extinct (Wurm 2007).
59. Lobel, Jason William. "Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction" (PDF). p. 98. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-14. SIL linguist Richard Roe contacted this group in 1957 and took a word list of 291 words. They lived on the Dicamay River on the western side of the Sierra Madre near Jones, Isabela. Roe told me that there was only one family there then. In November 1974, after talking with Roe and with a copy of his wordlist in hand, I went to Jones to see if I could find the Agta who spoke this language. I was unable to find them. We talked to many Filipinos in the area, but they all said they had not seen any Negritos for several years. Some people whispered to me that migrant Ilokano homesteaders had killed a number of the Agta a few years ago.
60. "Hoti". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2024-11-17. No known L1 speakers (Wurm 2007).
61. "Hpon". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-09-23. Retrieved 2024-10-19. Last known speaker survived into the 1990s
62. ^ "11 Indigenous Languages Declared Extinct: Education Ministry". Jakarta Globe. 8 March 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2024. Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
63. "Kamarian". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2014-02-20. Retrieved 2024-10-19. ...now probably extinct (Wurm 2007).
64. Lobel, Jason William. "Philippine and North Bornean languages: Issues in description, subgrouping, and reconstruction" (PDF). p. 92. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-14. While the Katabangan of Catanauan exists in name as a group, a visit to the group in 2006 confirmed that none of the Katabangan speak any language natively other than Tagalog, nor is there any recollection of their ancestors speaking any other language.
65. "iso639-3/kzl". Retrieved 2024-05-17. The last speaker of the Leliali dialect died in 1989
66. Lelak at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
67. ^ "Noorderlicht Nieuws: Raadselachtig Rusenu" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 18 April 2007. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
68. Dimas, Dimas. "PUNAHNYA BAHASA KREOL PORTUGIS". LIPI (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
69. "Moksela". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2008-10-23. Retrieved 2024-06-12. Last speaker died in 1974.
70. Nila at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
71. Moseley (2010), p. 211.
72. Moseley (2010), p. 209.
73. "Pyu". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 5 June 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-06. c. 5th? - 12th century AD.
74. "Sabüm". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2019-07-04. Retrieved 2024-10-19. The last speaker survived into the late 1970s (Benjamin 1976).
75. Moseley (2010), p. 211.
76. "Taman". Ethnologue. Archived from the original on 2011-12-17. Retrieved 2024-06-12. Reportedly the last speaker of Taman died in the 1990s.
77. Mark Donohue (2007). "The Papuan Language of Tambora". Oceanic Linguistics. 46 (2). JSTOR: 520–537. doi:10.1353/ol.2008.0014. JSTOR 20172326. Retrieved 2024-05-07. ...the language, along with its speakers, was lost in a gigantic volcanic eruption, the most cataclysmic in historic times in April 1815.
78. Haarmann, Harald. Lexikon der untergegangenen Sprachen (in German). p. 188.
79. "iso639-3/tvy". Retrieved 2024-05-17. ...that was spoken in Bidau, an eastern suburb of Dili, East Timor until the 1960s
80. "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Arin". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2024-11-17. status extinct since 1790
81. Moseley, Christopher; Nicolas, Alexandre. "Atlas of the world's languages in danger". UNESCO. Retrieved 2024-08-20. Languages that have become extinct since being linguistically described include Mator (Samoyed, in the 1840s), Kott (Yeniseic, in the 1850s), Arman (an archaic variety of Even, in the 1970s)
82. "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Assan". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2024-11-17. status extinct since 1790
83. ^ "Last Native Speaker Of Aleut Language In Russia Dies". Radiofreeeurope/Radioliberty. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 2024-04-26.
84. "Chuvantsy". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 2024-04-26. Survived until perhaps the 18th century AD.
85. ^ Kibrik, Aleksandr E. (March 1991). "The Problem of Endangered Languages in the USSR". Diogenes. 39 (153): 67–83. doi:10.1177/039219219103915305. ISSN 0392-1921.
86. Abondolo, Daniel; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (31 Mar 2023). The Uralic Languages. Maksim Sivtorov passed away in early 2018, and Eastern Mansi is thus the latest Uralic language to become extinct.
87. Stern, Dieter (2005). "Taimyr Pidgin Russian (Govorka)". Russian Linguistics. 29 (3). JSTOR: 289–318. doi:10.1007/s11185-005-8376-3. ISSN 0304-3487. JSTOR 40160794. Retrieved 2024-08-25. These are the Norwegian-Russian pidgin known as Russenorsk, Chinese Pidgin Russian and Taimyr Pidgin Russian (TPR). Brief remarks in travel accounts and elsewhere indicate the existence of other Russian pidgins, such as Chukotka Pidgin Russian and Kamchatka Pidgin Russian. None of these, however, have been documented or described. In the case of the documented pidgins, the extent of the text samples is far from being exhaustive. With the exception of TPR, further documentation seems no longer possible, however, as the pidgins in question are extinct by now.
88. "Dying Languages". Dzen. February 9, 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2024.
89. Fortescue, Michael (22 December 2011). Comparative Chukotko-Kamchatkan Dictionary. p. 1.
90. "Kott". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-07. Survived until middle of 19th century AD.
91. Sato, Tomomi; Bugaeva, Anna (15 March 2019). "The study of old documents of Hokkaido and Kuril Ainu : promise and challenges". 北方言語研究. 9: 67–93. Retrieved 2024-05-08. Unfortunately, Kuril Ainu, which is absolutely indispensable for the reconstruction, disappeared in the late 19th century with just few old documents left.
92. Stern, Dieter (2020). "Russian Pidgin Languages". p. 3. Retrieved 2024-08-25. With the dissolution of the Russian emigré community in Harbin starting with the foundation of Manchukuo in 1932, and the expulsion of the Chinese from the Soviet Union in the late 1930s, CPR lost its remaining functional domains and went extinct.
93. "Chulym Turkic". Retrieved 2024-11-13. Currently, the Lower Chulym dialect is considered extinct (the last speaker, according to Valeria Lemskaya, died in 2011).
94. "Mator". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2024-03-07. Mator or Motor was a Uralic language belonging to the group of Samoyedic languages, extinct since the 1840s.
95. "Omok". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2 June 2012. Retrieved 2024-04-26. Survived until perhaps 18th century.
96. "The ASJP Database - Wordlist Pumpokol". asjp.clld.org. Retrieved 2024-11-16. status extinct since 1740
97. Wilson, Samuel M. "Cultures in Contact" (PDF). Retrieved 2024-05-08. In 1994, Take Asai died at the age of 102. She was the last native speaker of Sakhalin Ainu
98. "Sirenik". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 10 December 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-07. In January 1997 the last native speaker of the language, a woman named Vyie (Valentina Wye) died.
99. Salminen, Tapani (2023). "Demography, endangerment, and revitalization". In Abondolo, Daniel Mario; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (eds.). The Uralic languages. Routledge Language Family (2nd ed.). London New York: Routledge. p. 103. ISBN 978-1-138-65084-8.
100. Abondolo, Daniel; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (31 Mar 2023). The Uralic Languages. Southern Mansi, whose aboriginal territory covered a vast area including parts of easternmost Europe, is undoubtedly the Mansi language that was first to become extinct. When that happened can only be estimated on the basis of the records of Kannisto and others, which show that shift to both Russian and Siberian Tatar was progressing rapidly at the beginning of the twentieth century, leading to the conclusion that the language probably survived until the middle decades.
101. Abondolo, Daniel; Valijärvi, Riitta-Liisa (31 Mar 2023). The Uralic Languages. Although we do not know the time of the death of the last speaker of Western Mansi, it does indeed seem certain that there were none left by the end of the twentieth century
102. Edward Vajda (2024-02-19). Vajda, Edward (ed.). "8 The Yeniseian language family". The Languages and Linguistics of Northern Asia. De Gruyter. pp. 365–480. doi:10.1515/9783110556216-008. ISBN 978-3-11-055621-6. Retrieved 2024-11-17.
103. Krauss, Michael. "The Indigenous Languages of the North : A Report on Their Present State" (PDF). Retrieved 23 April 2024. Yurats was another Samoyedic language replaced by the eastward advance of Tundra Nenets, extinct during the nineteenth century, with meager documentation
104. "AZERBAIJAN vii. The Iranian Language of Azerbaijan". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2024-08-20.
105. "The Akkadian Language". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 25 December 2009. Retrieved 2024-08-22. Survived until around 100 AD.
106. Walter E. Aufrecht (May 1987). "The Ammonite Language of the Iron Age. Kent P. Jackson. Review". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (266). JSTOR: 87. JSTOR 1356933. Retrieved 9 October 2024.
107. Cooper, Eric; Decker, Michael J. (2012). Life And Society In Byzantine Cappadocia. p. 14. The echoes of native Cappadocian could be heard into the sixth century and perhaps beyond.
108. "Armazic". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 2024-04-16. 1st-2nd centuries AD.
109. "Carian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 14 April 2021. Retrieved 2024-03-06. 7th to 3rd centuries BC.
110. Ivantchik, A.I. (2001). The current state of the Cimmerian problem. The development of the Classical tradition on the subject of the Cimmerians after their disappearance from the historical arena, no later than the very end of the 7th or very beginning of the 6th century BC
111. "Dadanitic". Retrieved 2024-05-10. Dadanitic was the alphabet used by the inhabitants of the ancient oasis of Dadan, probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BC.
112. Mehdi Marashi, Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Persian studies in North America: studies in honor of Mohammad Ali Jazayery, Ibex Publishers, Inc., 1994, ISBN 0-936347-35-X, 9780936347356, p. 269.
113. "Dumaitic". Retrieved 2024-05-10. According to the Assyrian annals Dūma was the seat of successive queens of the Arabs, some of whom were also priestesses, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC.
114. Jean Jacques Glassner (2013-10-28). "Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha". In Julian Reade (ed.). The Indian Ocean In Antiquity. Routledge. p. 242. ISBN 9781136155314. In short, the anthroponyms and the remnants of the language show that at the beginning of the second millennium the people of Dilmun was a Semitic one.
115. "Palaeosyrian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 10 January 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024. 3rd Millenium BC.
116. "Edomite". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024. Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.
117. "Elamite". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 2 April 2017. Retrieved 2024-03-05. 3rd millennium BC - 8th Century BC.
118. "Eteocypriot". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 17 February 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2024. An ancient language of Cyprus, up to 4th C BC.
119. "Galatian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019. Retrieved 2024-03-06. Perhaps from the late 1st millenium BC, and spoken until the 6th century AD, according to Greek Historians.
120. "Hadramitic". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 15 September 2012. Retrieved 2024-03-06. 100 BC - 600 AD.
121. "Hasaitic". LINGUIST List. Retrieved 2024-05-10. They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.
122. "Hatti". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 24 April 2024. 2nd Millennium BC.
123. Stein, Peter (2008). "The "Ḥimyaritic" Language in pre-Islamic Yemen A Critical Re-evaluation". Academia.edu. p. 203. Its attribution to the tribe of Ḥimyar led to the designation of this idiom as"Ḥimyaritic". According to the sources, this language must have been in use in the Yemeni highlands up to the Xth century and even later,
124. "Hismaic". Retrieved 2024-05-10. i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD
125. "Hittite". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 10 August 2016. Retrieved 2024-03-06. 1500–1180 BC
126. "Hurrian". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 17 July 2019. Retrieved 2024-03-05. 2nd - Ist Millennium BC.
127. Lenski, Noel. "Assimilation and Revolt in the Territory of Isauria, From the 1st Century BC to the 6th Century AD". Academia.edu. Retrieved 2024-08-13. Beginning in the middle of the second millenniumBC the region had fallen under the control of the Hittite empire and from that point until at least the end of the sixth century AD its inhabitants continued to speak a branch of Hittite now called Luwian.
128. Schwemer, Daniel (2024). Keilschrifttexte aus Boghazköi (in German). Vol. 71. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur. p. XIX.
129. "Historical Memory about Migration of the Kaskians in Western Georgia". p. 335. Retrieved 2024-05-06. The Kaška first appear on the territory of the Hittite empire in the 15th c. B.C. and are mentioned till 8th c. B.C.
130. "Kassites". Crystalinks. Retrieved 15 August 2024. Kassite (Cassite) was a language spoken by Kassites in northern Mesopotamia from approximately the 18th to the 4th century BC.
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