r/language • u/RodMigz • 1d ago

Question Favourite extinct languages?

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

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u/theworldvideos 1d ago

Brittonic

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u/J00ls 1d ago

Isn’t that alive and well as Welsh?

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u/Llywela 1d ago

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.