On the Existence of Language: Extinct, Dead or Endagered? »
Posted By julius-mamaril 9 months, 2 weeks ago in NewsAn extinct language is a language which no longer has any speakers, whereas a dead language is a language which is no longer spoken by anyone as their main language. Normally this conversion to an extinct language occurs when a language undergoes language death while being directly replaced by a different one. For example: Coptic, which was replaced by Arabic, and many Native American languages, which were replaced by English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese.
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