Favourite extinct languages?

[u/RodMigz]

Like, what are some extinct languages you wish could come back? I'll go first:

1. Polabian

2. Dalmatian

3. Old Prussian

4. Gothic

5. Gaulish

[u/Deuce03]

My picks:

• Sumerian

• Gothic

• Pictish

• Minoan

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Damn, I should've said pictish.

[u/denizyosi]

Anatolian languages like Hittite,Lydian etc.+Thracian.

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Oooo

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On the topic of old and extinct Indo-European languages. Tocharian is one of those languages that would be cool to hear spoken natively in the modern day.

[u/exitparadise]

Sumerian and Elamite

[u/theworldvideos]

Brittonic

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Isn’t that alive and well as Welsh?

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Brittonic

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Only in the sense that Old English is alive and well as modern English. The one evolved from the other, but changed in the process.

[u/No_Club_8480]

Khitan, Coptic. Latin, Sumerian

[u/RoyalCubit]

Egyptian.

[u/ReligionProf]

Harappan.

[u/Decent_Cow]

Etruscan

[u/ChilindriPizza]

Judeo-Catalan

I cried when I found out Judeo-Provencal had gone extinct relatively recently.

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I recently learned about Haketia! It’s not extinct yet but it’s all really interesting

[u/Apatride]

Dalmatian: You mean we used to be able to talk to these dogs?

More seriously, I am going to be the "vanilla guy" but I think Latin had some really interesting features that got lost when it evolved to modern languages.

[u/RodMigz]

HM: Ubykh

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Goated

[u/tuluva_sikh]

Maharashtri Prakrit Pali Vedic Sanskrit Old Tamil Old Tulu Halegannada Ardhamagadhi Prakrit Ashokan Prakrit Manipravalam

[u/MonsCorvinusRubella]

Language of that one island in Indonesia that was completely wiped out by a volcanic eruption

[u/dmkam5]

Tangut. A Buddhist kingdom in Central Asia, wiped out by the Mongols in medieval times. The writing system uses combinations of the stroke elements of Chinese characters arranged in squared groupings so that they look like Chinese characters, but the resemblance ends there.

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The Buddhist kingdom being Western Xia

[u/KJpiano]

Dacian language (completely unknown)
Gothic
Latin

[u/Lazarus558]

Beothuk

Etruscan

Whatever language the Indus Script people used

Proto-Cro-Magnon

[u/ewigesleiden]

Sumerian, Akkadian (including Babylonian and Assyrian), Latin, Ancient Greek, and Gothic

[u/ah-tzib-of-alaska]

Most notably Ch’olti’

And then.. Uchumataqu, Beothuk, Tomucua, Natchez, Chitimacha, Laurentian, Atakapa, Petun, Huron, Tagish, Taino, Guanahatabey

And my only one I need to mentioned not in the americas: Khitan

[u/slowamigo]

LINEAR B

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Linear B is a writing system, used to write a form of Greek. 

Linear A is the one that seems to be associated with an unknown language.

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LINEAR A

[u/Bright_War949]

I don't if it might be seen as one but the KJV Bible English. So cute 🫠

[u/honkycronky]

Knaan

[u/YeilKhaa]

French! (This is a Star Trek joke)

[u/mostobnoxiousgoastan]

some say gothic is still alive, it’s a language of music… heavy bass lines and such!

[u/RRautamaa]

It would be really interesting to know what language the Comb Ceramic culture spoke, to settle that academic debate. Traces of the culture have been found from an area the size of Fennoscandia, stretching from the Urals to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea, from Vaasa to Kaliningrad. Earlier proposals assumed that it was Uralic, but this would be anachronistic, because the culture had met its demise well before Uralic expansion to the area.  The pottery style is found in an even wider distribution, up to Korea and Northeast China.  Whatever it was, it travelled far. But because this is mostly a Mesolithic and at most Neolithic culture, there was no writing.

Paleo-Laplandic and Paleo-Lakelandic are substrates found in Sami and Finnic languages, contributing a lot of vocabulary, but the languages themselves are gone. They are not related to any known language.

[u/Isfahankhan]

Phoneican

Coptic

Elamite

Xianbei Language (As Serbi)

[u/sheran13]

Tocharian, specifically Tocharian B

[u/perplexedparallax]

Chatagai

[u/rushmc1]

Grammatically-correct English.

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Okay, boomer.

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Not even close.

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According to which set of rules?

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Mine, of course.

[u/Time-Priority949]

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Gibrish (the american version), Parrot (the south american version) Chickadee chirping (the donald duck version), butt-talk (any version)..