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List of extinct languages of Africa and Europe

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By Okechukwu Okugo

It seems that humans have always been the problem of this planet for a very long time now. According to Discovery News, "Humans caused 322 animal extinctions in past 500 years."
But one thing about extinction is that animals are not only the victims, humans also have suffered some form of it themselves if not for in any other way, but at least in the languages they spoke.
 Thus many spoken languages of the world had become endangered and most wiping away totally and not spoken at all by any one today.
Defining endangered language in one of his published journals, Ani Kelechi Johnmary of the Department of History and Strategic studies of Federal University of Technology, Abakaliki, Nigeria, wrote, "Endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language."
And personally I define an illiterate as a person who does not know how to read or write in his native tongue.
It is very appalling seeing people born into a culture and language watching their culture and language die: great instruments of self determination and group identity. 
Every one owes it as a debt to pass on to their children the mother tongue and culture which the parents themselves had inherited from their own fore parents. Even if the child would grow up to learn two or more languages, which is also an advantage, the mother tongue should always be the chief tongue: an irreplaceable heritage.
In Nigeria for example about 500 languages is spoken many of which are spoken by minority groups. But out of the country's three major languages - Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba, only Igbo spoken by about 20 million people is endangered. 
Still writing in the journal, Ani threw a glimpse about the above reality thus, "But following the prediction by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Advisory Committee on Language Pluralism and Multi-language Education that Igbo language and by implication, culture may be heading for extinction, and subsumed by other stronger Nigerian language by 2025, if nothing is done, by its speakers..."
Yes and this is absolutely true. Their parents are responsible for it and today their younger generation think that civilization is being proficient in other languages while killing their own mother tongue. Today they see those who are proficient with their native tongue as common illiterates. 
And for those who still think that language endangerment and extinction is a mere threat, below is a list of African languages that had become extinct. 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Africa satellite orthographic.jpg
This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant. There are 51 languages listed

Angola[edit]

Cameroon[edit]

Chad[edit]

Democratic Republic of the Congo[edit]

Egypt[edit]

Eritrea[edit]

Ethiopia[edit]

Guinea[edit]

Ivory Coast[edit]

Kenya[edit]

Nigeria[edit]

South Africa[edit]

Sudan[edit]

Tanzania[edit]

Tunisia[edit]

Uganda[edit]


Below is also a list of European languages that have become extinct


List of extinct languages of Europe

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Europe satellite orthographic.jpg
This is a list of extinct languages of Europe, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.
In some cases however, it is not known whether a language has a spoken descendant or not. For example, because of the uncertain origin of the Albanian language — aside from its being an Indo-European language — and because little remains of the ancient languages in question, there is dispute whether Dacian, Thracian or Illyrian have a spoken descendant, Albanian. And because of the scarcity of the evidence, it is not known whether Basque is a descendant of the Aquitanian language.
Although the Pomeranian language has a spoken descendant, the Kashubian language, the other dialects of Pomeranian are extinct. There are 143 languages listed.

Balkans[edit]

Caucasus[edit]

France[edit]

Italy[edit]

British Isles[edit]

Northern and Central Europe[edit]

Iberian Peninsula[edit]

Russia[edit]








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Unknown said…
Waooo...so many languages are dead already
September 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM
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