List of extinct languages

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[edit] Origin Uncertain

  • Sumerian
  • Kassite
  • Elamite
  • Ancient Iberian (of Iberian Peninsula)
  • Tartessian
  • Aquitanian
  • Etruscan
  • Lemnian
  • Raetic
  • Minoan (or Linear A of Crete)
  • Hattic
  • Meroitic

[edit] Indo-European Languages

[edit] Anatolian Languages (All Extinct)

  • Cuneiform Hittite
  • Hieroglyphic Hittite
  • Luwian
  • Palaian
  • Lydian
  • Lycian
  • Carian

[edit] Indo-Iranian Languages

  • Avestan
  • Ancient Persian (Cuneiform Persian)
  • Pahlavi (Middle Persian)

[edit] Italic Languages

  • Latin
  • Oscian
  • Umbrian
  • Venetic
  • Lombardian

[edit] Ancient Languages of Balkans

  • Phrygian
  • Macedonian (Not to be confused with modern Macedonian of Slavic Group)
  • Thracian
  • Illyrian
  • Dacian

[edit] Celtic Languages

  • British
  • Pictish

[edit] Hurro-Urartian Languages

  • Hurrian
  • Urartian

[edit] Afroasiatic Languages

  • Assyrian
  • Akkadian
  • Babylonian
  • Aramaic (almost extinct, has a few descendants, such as Syriac)
  • Ugaritic
  • Phoenician
  • Ancient Egyptian
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