1.

to draw the attention to the extinct and

endangered languages.
2. to understand why the process of extinction
continues on
3. to find information about extinct and
endangered languages
4. to compare the number of extinct languages
in Europe, Asia, North America
 The subject of our research work is the
world endangered languages
The hypothesis of the
work:
“ the number of endangered language s is
small enough, and they carry no loss to the
world culture”
”
 As economic and cultural globalization and
development continue to push forward,
growing numbers of languages will become
endangered and eventually, extinct. With
increasing economic integration on national
and regional scales, people find it easier to
communicate and conduct business in the
dominant languages of world commerce:
English, Chinese, and Spanish.
 You can open a new section of linguistics -
linguistic of endangered languages which
task would be not only not only to collect
information on extinct languages, but also
the conservation of rare and endangered
languages
 According to estimates of linguists in the
world today, there are 6,809 languages, but
less than 100 thousand people speak 90%
of these languages
 There are 357 languages, which are spoken

by the number of less than 50 people

 Over the past 500 years has lost some 4.5

percent of the total number of described

languages
 Of the 176 languages spoken by the tribes
of North America forever lost 52.
 Some languages are important because they

have unique features. For example, in the

language Yeli Dnye, which is spoken by the
inhabitants of the island of Rossel in Papua
- New Guinea, is unusual sounds, and
words to describe the colors are absolutely
not coincide with the accepted terminology.
 This is a list of extinct languages of Europe,
languages which have undergone language
death, have no native speakers and no
spoken descendant.
Balkans
Dalmatian
Northern and Central Europe
•

1. Dacian
2. Illyrian
• Germanic languages
3. Liburnian 1. Burgundian
4. Paeonian 2. Gothic
5. Old Church Slavonic 3. Vandalic
Eteocretan
6.
1. West Baltic languages
7. Eteocypriot
8. Pelasgian
1. Sudovian (Yotvingian) language
9. Lemnian 2. Old Prussian language
10. Thracian 3. Galindan language
France
2. East Baltic languages
1. Gaulish
2. Shuadit
1. Curonian (Kursh) language
Italy 2. Selonian language
1. Elymian 3. Semigallian language
Etruscan
2.
3. Slavic languages
3. Faliscan
4. Lepontic
1. Polabian language
5. Ligurian 2. Knaanic language
6. Messapian 3. Slovincian
7. Oscan 4. Sami languages
8. Raetian
1. Akkala Sami
9. Sicanian
10. Sicel
2. Kemi Sami
11. Umbrian Iberian Peninsula
12. Venetic 1. Iberian
13. Volscian
2. Tartessian
British Isles
1. Celtic languages 3. Celtiberian
1. British 4. Lusitanian
2. Cumbric
3. Pictish 5. Mozarabic
2. Germanic languages Russia
1. Norn
1. Merya
3. Romance languages
1. Anglo-Norman language 2. Meshcherian
2. Auregnais
3. Muromian
 India Arabia
1. Ahom
1. Hadramautic
2. Andamanese languages
China 1. Aka-Bea 2. Himyarite
1. Khitan 2. Aka-Bo 3. Minaean
3. Aka-Cari
2. Saka 4. Nabatean
4. Aka-Jeru
3. Tocharian 5. Aka-Kede 5. Qatabanian
Jurchen 6. Aka-Kol
4.
7. Aka-Kora
6. Sabaean
5. Zhang-Zhung 8. Akar-Bale Caucasus
6. Tangut 9. Oko-Juwoi • Ubykh
7. Han'er 3. Arwi Iranian Plateau
Korea 4. Labanki
1. Azari
5. Prakrit
1. Goguryeo Sri Lanka 2. Elamite
2. Silla 1. Arwi Levant
3. Buyeo 2. Ceylon Portuguese 1. Ammonite
Baekje 3. Ceylon Dutch
4. 2. Eblaite
4. Kaffir
Central and Northern Asia 3. Edomite
5. Pali
1. Scythian languages Taiwan 4. Moabite
2. Hunnic • Basay
5. Phoenician
3. Khazarian 1. Kulun
2. Honya 6. Ugaritic
4. Sogdian
3. Ketangalan Mesopotamia
Siberia
4. Taokas 1. Akkadian
1. Arin
5. Papora 2. Amorite
2. Assan 6. Siraya
3. Gutian
3. Kamassian 7. Babuza
Thailand 4. Hurrian
4. Koibal
5. Kott
• Phi 5. Kassite
Near East
6. Mator Anatolia 6. Sumerian
7. Pumpokol 1. Anatolian languages
1. Carian
8. Sireniki 2. Hittite
9. Yugh 3. Luwian
4. Lycian
10. Yurats
5. Lydian
6. Mysian
7. Palaic
2. Galatian
3. Hattian
• Bahamas
• Taino
Canada
1. Beothuk
2. Laurentian
3. Newfoundland Irish
4. Pentlatch
5. Tsetsaut
6. Wyandot
Greenland
• Greenlandic Norse
Mexico
1. Chicomuceltec
2. Cochimí
3. Náhuatl, Classical
4. Guaycura
5. Náhuatl, Tabasco
6. Pame Sur
7. Tepecano
8. Tubar
United States 1. Miluk
1. Abnaki, Eastern
2. Miwok: Bay Miwok
2. Adai
3. Miwok: Coast Miwok
3. Alsea
4. Atakapa 4. Mobilian
5. Barbareño 5. Mohegan
6. Biloxi
6. Molala
7. Cayuse
7. Nanticoke
8. Chehalis
9. Chimariko 8. Narragansett
10. Chitimacha 9. Natchez
11. Coquille
10. Nooksack
12. Costanoan, Northern
11. Northern Kalapuyan
13. Costanoan, Southern
14. Cowlitz 12. Obispeño
15. Cruzeño 13. Ofo
16. Delaware, Pidgin
14. Pamlico
17. Eel River Athabaskan
15. Piro
18. Esselen
19. Etchemin 16. Pomo, Eastern
20. Eyak 17. Pomo, Northern
21. Galice-Applegate
18. Powhatan
22. Hanis
19. Purisimeño
23. Ineseño
24. Iowa-Oto 20. Quiripi-Naugatuck-Unquachog
25. Island Chumash 21. Salinan
Jersey Dutch
26.
22. Shasta
27. Karkin
28. Kathlamet
23. Shinnecock
29. Kitsai 24. Siuslaw
30. Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie 25. Susquehannock
31. Loup A 26. Takelma
32. Loup B 27. Tillamook
33. Lower Chinook 28. Tonkawa
34. Lumbee 29. Tsetsaut
35. Mahican 30. Tunica
36. Maidu, Valley 31. Tutelo
37. Martha's Vineyard Sign Language 32. Twana
38. Massachusett 33. Upper Umpqua
39. Mattole-Bear River 34. Ventureño
40. Miami-Illinois 35. Wappo
36. Wiyot
37. Wyandot
 Atakapa is an extinct language isolate native to southwestern Louisiana and
nearby coastal eastern Texas.
 The Atakapa were a Southeastern culture of Native American tribes with a
common language who lived along the Gulf of Mexico. It is believed that most
Western Atakapa tribes or subdivisions were decimated in the 1850s mainly
from disease and poverty. However, many descendants still exist and fight for
a recognition of their identity. But language of this tribe has disappeared for
ever.
 Eyak is an extinct Na-Dené language that was historically spoken by the Eyak
people, indigenous to southcentral Alaska, near the mouth of the Copper
River.
 Marie Smith Jones (May 14, 1918 – January 21, 2008) of Cordova was the
language's last native speaker, as well as the last full-blooded Eyak. Because
of the dying-off of its native speakers, Eyak became a symbol in the fight
against language extinction. In extinction Eyak language has resulted not only
mass transition of carriers to English, but also influence of the next American
Indian languages preceding it.
 The Beothuk language was spoken by the indigenous Beothuk
people of Newfoundland. As the Beothuk are extinct and few
written accounts of their language exist, little is known about it. It
is sometimes assumed to be part of the neighbouring Algonquian
language family, but there is insufficient evidence to draw any
strong conclusions. In 2007, DNA studies showed genetic links
between the Beothuk and the Algonquian-speaking Mi'kmaq, which
supported the theory that the people spoke related languages, even
if they had become distinct millennia ago. [

 In the picture we can see Last known speaker of: the Beothuk language
 Ubykh or Ubyx is an extinct language of the Northwestern
Caucasian group, spoken by the Ubykh people (who originally lived
along the eastern coast of the Black Sea before migrating en masse
to Turkey in the 1860s). The language's last native speaker, Tevfik
Esenç, died in 1992.
 Tevfik Esenç - the last person able to speak the Ubykh language
 A language is often declared to be dead even
before the last native speaker of the language
has died.
If there are only a few elderly speakers of a
language remaining, and they no longer use
that language for communication, then the
language is effectively dead.
Some languages die.
• Scientists are worried because some languages
become less and less popular.
• Loss of the language entails the loss of
consciousness.
• With language people lose their culture, their
individuality, their feature.
 Breton.
• Breton refers to the Celtic group of Indo-European language
family.
• Currently, the Breton language is under threat.
 Kashubian language.

• Kashubian language - West Slavic languages lehitskoy

subgroups, spread west and south of Gdansk.
 Mandansky language.
• Closest to
mandanskomu is the
language of the tribe
of Winnebago.
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 Why do languages die?
• The main reasons are
globalization and
migration.
 How Can We Save Languages?
• What can be done to
prevent the
destruction of
language and stored in
its knowledge?
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The number of minority languages, according to the present count, 110!
The most endangered languages in Russia are
The Mansi language and The Nivkh language.
 The Mansi Language
The official status of Mansi is the language of aboriginal
Small people of Russia. The first contacts of Russians with
Mansi refer to 15-16th centuries. Nowadays Mansi is used
Mainly family household communication ,it is used also in
small collectines that lead traditional way of life.
The Nivkh language
In 1989 the number of the Nivkh was 4700, but only
23,3 % spoke their native language. The Nivkh language is
used by 688 people. It is a language of a minority indigenous
People of the Russian Federation.
Could you name any extinct
languages?
Do you think it is important to
preserve languages?
 Output
• Our hypothesis : “ the number of endangered
languages is small enough, and they carry no
loss to the world culture” is not right. The
number of the dying languages is big enough. Of
course, their loss is a big tragedy to the world
culture. With the death of the language the
unique culture of a small group of people dies.
• Our pupils do not pay much attention to the
problem.
 Why is it so important to preserve
languages?
• Language and culture have a very intimate relationship with
each other.
• Language is the distinguishing feature of each country
• Language is the culture of the people
• Diversity of languages makes us different from each other
• Every language reflects something special in the world
• We should preserve all the languages