Extinct or Dead Languages of Europe

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*Includes languages spoken after the formation of the Roman Empire
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Akkala Sámi
Alanic
Anglo-Norman
Anglo-Saxon
Aquitanian
Basque-Icelandic
Brittonic
Bulgar
Burgundian
Buri
Catalonic
Celtiberian
Crimean Gothic
Cuman
Cumbric
Curonian
Dacian
Dalmatian
Eteocretan
Eteocypriot
Etruscan
Frankish
Galician-Portuguese
Galindian
Gallaecian
Gaulish
Gothic
Hunnic
Iberian
Illyrian
Judaeo-Aragonese
Judaeo-Piedmontese
Knaanic
Latin
Lemnian
Lepontic
Liburnian
Lombardic
Lusitanic
Lusitanian
Phoenician
Pictish
Polabian
Prussian
Minoan
Moselle Romance
Mozarabic
Navarro-Aragonese
Noric
Norn
Norse
Nuragic
Goidelic
Old East Slavic
Old Gutnish
Old Ligurian
Old Provençal
Old Ruthenian
Old Slavonic
Oscan
Pecheneg
Pomeranian
Rhaetian
Russenorsk
Sarmatian
Saxon
Selonian
Semigallian
Shuadit
Slavic
Slovincian
Solombala
Sudovian
Suebian
Tartessian
Thracian
Vandalic
Zarphatic
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5 Comments
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Level 69
Mar 9, 2020
Cool quiz! A couple more languages I noticed that you could add: Faliscan, Sicel, and Umbrian
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Level 76
May 17, 2021
Among these, at least Latin, Norse, Anglo-Saxon, Brittonic, Slavic, Old East Slavic, Old Ruthenian and Pomeranian (possibly more) didn't actually go extint, just their modern descendants got different names. That doesn't count as extinction in linguistics as far as I'm aware.
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Level 39
Oct 25, 2022
You should add Yola, a cousin of English spoken in the Forth and Bargy part of Ireland a couple centuries ago.
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Level 39
Oct 22, 2025
Add Mediterranean Lingua Franca fr
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Level 34
Apr 17, 2026
I think this list has a pretty infinite number of contenders. middle english, old [insert european language here], proto-indo-european, vulgar latin, celtiberian, a dozen versions of greek. Polari, arguably