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Extinct languages

Guess the names of selected extinct languages based on provided information.
Quiz does not include languages that lived on to evolve into modern languages, like Latin or Ancient Greek
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Last updated: September 18, 2019
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First submittedSeptember 17, 2019
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Areas spoken
Language family
Extinct
Akkadian
Mesopotamia
Afro-Asiatic
8th century BC
Elamite
Southwestern Iran
Language isolate
~300 BC
Etruscan
Northern parts of Italian Peninsula
Tyrsenian?
~20 AD
Gaulish
France, Benelux, Switzerland, Northern Italy
Indo-European
6th century
Gothic
Many areas of Europe, survived for the longest in Crimea
Indo-European
18th century
Hittite
North-central Anatolia
Indo-European
~1200 BC
Khazar
Southwestern Russia
Turkic
13th century
Luwian
Southern Anatolia, Northern Syria
Indo-European
6th century BC
Old Prussian
Northern Poland, Kaliningrad Oblast
Indo-European
18th century
Polabian
Northeastern Germany
Indo-European
18th century
Punic
Northern Africa, Southern Iberia, Mediterranean Islands
Afro-Asiatic
~800 AD
Sumerian
Mesopotamia
Language isolate
2000-1800 BC
Thracian
Eastern Balkans
Indo-European?
6th century
Tocharian
Northwestern China
Indo-European
9th century
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2 Comments
Sifhraven
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Level 76
May 5, 2020
Cool quiz :) I thought I might get none, but actually managed to get 4 (but outside and highly distracted, ow yea I was in the middle of a quiz..). And after seeing the result I have heard of all of them besides Elamite (which sounds funny to me, there is this tiny rural town called Elim here, which is where my mother was born, and people that live/are from there are called Elimiet :) ) Khazar, Luwian and Polabian.

I think this qualifies for a nomination ;) Good fun! (will probably spend some time reading up on the languages now :)

YouLoveEagle
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Level 48
Aug 11, 2022
Was there ever a dinosaur language
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