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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 133 languages listed. 15 from Central Asia, 21 from East Asia, 15 from South Asia, 18 from Southeast Asia, 12 from Siberia and 52 from West Asia.
This is an incomplete list. You can help by adding missing items, correcting wrong information and adding reliable sources. (March 2024)
Language/dialect | Family | Date of extinction | Ethnic Group(s) | Native to |
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Avestan | Indo-European | 800s BC | Avestan people | Central Asia |
Bactrian | Indo-European | 1000s AD | Bactrians | Bactria |
Bulgar | Turkic | 1200s AD | Pontic–Caspian steppe | Bulgars |
Chagatai | Turkic | [data missing] | Central Asia | Chagatai |
Cuman | Turkic | 1770s AD | Cumania | Cumans |
Fergana Kipchak | Turkic | 1920s AD | Fergana Kipchak-speakers | Fergana Valley |
Hunnic | Unclassified | [data missing] | Huns | East of the Volga and Central Asia |
Karakhanid | Turkic | [data missing] | Karakhanids | Kara-Khanid Khanate |
Khazar | Turkic | 1100s AD | Khazars | Khazar Khaganate |
Khorezmian | Turkic | 1300s AD | Khorezmian speakers | Golden Horde and Chagatai Khanate |
Khwarezmian | Indo-European | 1000s AD | Khwarezmians | Khwarazm |
Old Uyghur | Turkic | 1300s AD | Uyghurs in Turfan and Qomul | Mongolia, Hami, Turpan and Gansu |
Orkhon Turkic | Turkic | 1200s AD | Göktürks | Central Asia and East Asia |
Sogdian | Indo-European | 1000s AD | Sogdians | Sogdia |
Xiongnu | Yeniseian | [data missing] | Xiongnu | Xiongnu Empire |
Language/dialect | Family | Date of extinction | Ethnic Group(s) | Native to |
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Ahom | Kra–Dai | [data missing] | Ahom | Assam |
Aka-Bea | Andamanese | 1931 AD | Bea | western Andaman Strait and the northern and western coast of South Andaman |
Aka-Bo | Andamanese | February 2010 | Bo | west central coast of the North Andaman and on the North Reef Island |
Aka-Cari | Andamanese | April 4, 2020 | Cari | north coast of North Andaman and on Landfall |
Aka-Kede | Andamanese | 1930-1950s AD | Aka-Kede | Southeast Middle Andaman |
Aka-Kol | Andamanese | 1921 AD | Kol | Northern section of Middle Andaman |
Aka-Kora | Andamanese | 2004 AD | Kora | northeast and north central coasts of North Andaman and Smith Island |
Akar-Bale | Andamanese | 1930-1950s AD | Bale | Ritchie's Archipelago, Havelock island and Neil Island |
Cochin Portuguese creole | Portuguese Creole | 20 August 2010 | Cochin Portuguese Creole speakers | Kochi |
Dura | Sino-Tibetan | August 2008 | Dura | Nepal |
Jangil | Andamanese | 1905 AD | Jangil | Rutland Island |
Lubanki | Indo-European | [data missing] | Labana | Punjab |
Moran | Sino-Tibetan | [data missing] | Morans | Assam |
Oko-Juwoi | Andamanese | 1931 AD | Juwoi | west central and southwest interior of Middle Andaman |
Pucikwar | Andamanese | 1930-1950s AD | Pucikwar | south coast of Middle Andaman, northeast coast of South Andaman and Baratang Island |
Language/dialect | Family | Date of extinction | Ethnic Group(s) | Native to |
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Arin | Yeniseian | 1700s AD | Ara | Yenisey between Yeniseysk and Krasnoyarsk |
Bering Aleut | Eskaleut | March 2021 AD | Aleuts | Kamchatka Krai, Russia |
Chuvan | Yukaghir | 1700s AD | Chuvans | Anadyr river basin of Chukotka |
Kamassian | Uralic | 1989 AD | Kamasins | north of the Sayan Mountains |
Kott | Yeniseian | 1800s AD | Kott speakers | Mana |
Mator | Uralic | 1840 AD | Koibal | Sayan Mountains |
Mednyj Aleut | Mixed Aleut–Russian | October 2022 AD | Alaskan Creoles on Medny Island | Commander Islands, Russia |
Omok | Yukaghir | 1700s AD | Omoks | Yakutia and Magadan |
Pumpokol | Yeniseian | 1800-1860 AD | Pumpokol speakers | Yenisey |
Sireniki | Eskaleut | 1997 AD | Sirenik Eskimos | Bering Strait region |
Yugh | Yeniseian | 1900s AD | Yug | Yenisey |
Yurats | Uralic | 1800s AD | Yurats | West of the Yenisey |
1200 - 800 BC.
13th century AD.
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.
This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.
6th - 12th century AD.
100 BC - 1000 AD.
1st century to mid-8th century A.D.
c. 11th - 16th centuries AD.
7th - 10th century AD.
... 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 ...
...the language, along with its speakers, was lost in a gigantic volcanic eruption, the most cataclysmic in historic times in April 1815.
Survived until perhaps the 18th century AD.
Survived until perhaps 18th century.
including Kott/Assan, Arin, Pumpokol, all extinct between about 1800 and 1860
Yurats was another Samoyedic language replaced by the eastward advance of Tundra Nenets, extinct during the nineteenth century, with meager documentation
6th-8th Centuries AD.
1st-2nd centuries AD.
3rd Millenium BC.
Earlier half of the 1st Millennium BC.
2nd Millennium BC.
2nd-1st Millennium BC.
500 BC to about 200 BC.
8th to ? 3rd century BC.
Even towards the end of the Mamluk period, during the reign of the last sultan al-Ghawri (1501-1516), the Mamluk, called Asanbay min Sudun, copied the religious Hanbali tract of Abu al-Layth in Kypchak language for the royal library.
... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
It continued to be spoken until the 15th century AD, developing ultimately into the Turkish varieties of later years.
2nd Millennium BC.
100 BC - 600 AD.
A minority of dated texts suggest that the practice of carving Safaitic inscriptions spanned at least from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
Ist Millennium BC.