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What's your favorite extinct language?

see list below. Mine is Punic

I think it's sad when languages go extinct. I don't care if languages evolve over time (old English to now for example) but when individual languages just die out, it's sad. Usually that means a group of people has been conquered and their culture is lost

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by Anonymousreply 17April 29, 2020 6:33 AM

Proper English.

by Anonymousreply 1April 28, 2020 6:43 PM

OP are you trying to bring back worship of the ancient Caananite goddesses Asherah and Astarte?

by Anonymousreply 2April 28, 2020 6:50 PM

Most DLers can't master even one.

by Anonymousreply 3April 28, 2020 6:54 PM

I once encountered an interdimensional entity with Sanskrit symbols pulsing outward from its aura. I might have been on DMT at the time.

by Anonymousreply 4April 28, 2020 6:55 PM

Cornish

by Anonymousreply 5April 28, 2020 6:56 PM

Mid-Atlantic English

by Anonymousreply 6April 28, 2020 6:57 PM

Pig Latin

by Anonymousreply 7April 28, 2020 6:59 PM

French.

by Anonymousreply 8April 28, 2020 7:00 PM

Aramaic?

by Anonymousreply 9April 28, 2020 7:01 PM

Queen Elizabeth I knew Cornish (which was an extant language in her day), as well as English, Welsh, Flemish, Scottish, Irish, French, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, and ancient Greek. She was one of the most accomplished scholars of her time, which was all the more remarkable then since she was a woman.

by Anonymousreply 10April 28, 2020 7:02 PM

Assyrian, Etruscan, that language Jodie Foster spoke with her twin sister in Nell.

by Anonymousreply 11April 28, 2020 7:04 PM

R2 Tanit is where it's at!

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by Anonymousreply 12April 28, 2020 7:07 PM

I'm afraid that one day Chinglish will a lost language.

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by Anonymousreply 13April 28, 2020 7:08 PM

Cornish is being revived, R5

by Anonymousreply 14April 28, 2020 7:15 PM

R5 R14 We know Cornish.

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by Anonymousreply 15April 28, 2020 7:38 PM

Ancient Lesbianese. The mother-tongue.

by Anonymousreply 16April 28, 2020 7:51 PM

Prussian

by Anonymousreply 17April 29, 2020 6:33 AM
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