List of extinct languages

This is a list of languages that currently have no speakers to which it is mother tongue.

• Akkadian, Mesopotamia (1st century AD)
• Avestan, Persia
• Barrow Point Aboriginal, Queensland, Australia
• Catawba
• Cornish, Cornwall
• Dalmatian, Italy, Croatia
• Egyptian, Egypt
• Etruscan, Italy
• Gothic, Iberia
• Kakadu (Gagadju), Big Bill Neidjie (July 2002)
• Latin, Rome and the Roman Empire. Probably the most famous dead language of all (but it is still used for technical terms)
• Manx, (1974) (but is being revived as a second language)
• Mutsun, California, United States
• Seroa, South Africa
• Shuadit or Judeo-Provençal
• Sumerian, Mesopotamia
• Tasmanian, (late 1800s)
• Ubykh, Tevfik Esenç, Turkey (October 1992) (but efforts to revive it are underway)
• /Xam, South Africa

See also: endangered language, list of endangered languages