Sentence examples for extinct language from inspiring English sources

The term "extinct language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a language that is no longer used or spoken by anyone. For example: The Hittite language is an extinct language that was spoken in the ancient kingdom of Anatolia.

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extinct language

noun

A dead language.

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There are practical reasons for learning an extinct language.

An extinct language – there are so many to choose from.

On rare occasions, an extinct language has been resurrected.

(Thao is a nearly extinct language spoken by an aboriginal group in Taiwan).

(The others are Chinese, Sanskrit and Pali, an extinct language of India).

Ahom, an extinct language once spoken in Assam Indiaa), has a considerable amount of literature.

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We might as well start with a change in the way we think about extinct languages.

Many of her students have done invaluable descriptive work on nearly extinct languages.

Iranian literature includes a limited corpus of writings in extinct languages such as Sogdian and the Khotanese dialect of Saka.

I disagree with the premise of the essay "Fading Species and Dying Tongues" that extinct languages are less dead than extinct species.

Text is the only image, the translation of recordings of speakers of vanishing (and some now extinct) languages from all over the world.

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