Sentence examples for extinct languages from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

Sometimes we need to remember, however, that there are reasons for learning extinct languages beyond boarding-school nostalgia or a burning desire to get into the Tory cabinet.

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

There are practical reasons for learning an extinct language.

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).