Extinct Language - Recently Extinct Languages

Recently Extinct Languages

With last known speaker and/or date of death.

1. Adai: (late 19th century)
2. Aka-Bo: Boa Sr (2010)
3. Akkala Sami: Marja Sergina (2003)
4. Alsean family
5. Apalachee: (early 18th century)
6. Arwi: (early 19th Century)
7. Aruá: (1877)
8. Atakapa: (early 20th century)
9. Atsugewi: (1988)
10. Beothuk: Shanawdithit (a.k.a. "Nancy April") (1829)
11. Black Isle dialect: Bobby Hogg (2012)
12. Catawban family
    1. Catawba: (before 1960)
    2. Woccon
13. Cayuse: (ca. 1930's)
14. Chemakum: (ca. 1940's)
15. Chicomuceltec: (late 20th century)
16. Chimariko: (ca. 1930's)
17. Chitimacha: Benjamin Paul (1934) & Delphine Ducloux (1940)
18. Chumashan family: Barbareño language was last to become extinct.
    1. Barbareño: Mary Yee (1965)
    2. Ineseño
    3. Island Chumash (Ethnologue)
    4. Obispeño
    5. Purisimeño
    6. Ventureño
19. Coahuilteco: (18th century)
20. Cochimí (a Yuman language): (early 19th century)
21. Comecrudan family
    1. Comecrudo: recorded from children (Andrade, Emiterio, Joaquin, & others) of last speakers in (1886)
    2. Garza: last recorded in (1828)
    3. Mamulique: last recorded in (1828)
22. Coosan family
    1. Hanis: Martha Johnson (1972)
    2. Miluk: Annie Miner Peterson (1939)
23. Costanoan languages (a subfamily of the Utian family): (ca. 1940's)
    1. Karkin
    2. Mutsun
    3. Northern Costanoan
       1. Ramaytush
       2. Chochenyo
       3. Tamyen
       4. Awaswas
    4. Rumsen: last recorded speaker died in (1939) in Monterey, California
    5. Chalon
24. Cotoname: last recorded from Santos Cavázos and Emiterio in (1886)
25. Crimean Gothic: language vanished by the (1800's)
26. Cuman: (early 17th century)
27. Dalmatian: Tuone Udaina, (June 10, 1898)
28. Esselen: report of a few speakers left in 1833, extinct before the end of the 19th century
29. Eyak (a Na-Dené language): Marie Smith Jones, January 21, 2008
30. Gabrielino (a Uto-Aztecan language): elderly speakers last recorded in 1933
31. Gafat (a South Ethiopian Semitic language): four speakers found in 1947 after much effort, no subsequent record
32. Galice-Applegate (an Athabaskan language)
    1. Galice dialect: Hoxie Simmons (1963)
33. Greenlandic Norse: (by the late 15th century (16th century at the latest))
34. Modern Gutnish: (by the 18th century)
35. Jassic: (17th century)
36. Juaneño (a Uto-Aztecan language): last recorded in (1934)
37. Kakadu (Gaagudju): Big Bill Neidjie (July 2002)
38. Kalapuyan family
    1. Central Kalapuya
       1. Ahantchuyuk, Luckimute, Mary's River, and Lower McKenzie River dialects: last speakers were about 6 persons who were all over 60 in (1937)
       2. Santiam dialect: (ca. 1950's)
    2. Northern Kalapuya
       1. Tualatin dialect: Louis Kenoyer (1937)
       2. Yamhill dialect: Louisa Selky (1915)
    3. Yonkalla: last recorded in 1937 from Laura Blackery Albertson who only partly remembered it
39. Kamassian: last native speaker, Klavdiya Plotnikova, died in 1989
40. Karankawa: (1858)
41. Kathlamet (a Chinookan language): (ca. 1930's)
42. Kitanemuk (an Uto-Aztecan language): Marcelino Rivera, Isabella Gonzales, Refugia Duran last recorded (1937)
43. Kitsai (a Caddoan language): Kai Kai (ca. 1940)
44. Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie (an Athabaskan language): children of the last speakers remembered a few words, recorded in (1935 & 1942)
    1. Clatskanie dialect: father of Willie Andrew (ca. 1870)
    2. Kwalhioqua dialect: mother of Lizzie Johnson (1910)
45. Lipan (Athabaskan): a few native speakers were living in the 1980s, now extinct
46. Mahican: last spoken in Wisconsin (ca. 1930's)
47. Manx: Ned Maddrell (December 1974) (but is being revived as a second language)
48. Mattole-Bear River (an Athabaskan language)
    1. Bear River dialect: material from last elderly speaker recorded (ca. 1929)
    2. Mattole dialect: material recorded (ca. 1930)
49. Mbabaram: Albert Bennett (1972)
50. Mesmes: (one of the West Gurage languages), material from last elderly speaker (who had not spoken it for 30 years) collected ca. 2000
51. Miami-Illinois: (1989)
52. Mochica: (ca. 1950's)
53. Mohegan: Fidelia Fielding (1908)
54. Molala: Fred Yelkes (1958)
55. Munichi: Victoria Huancho Icahuate (late 1990s)
56. Natchez: Watt Sam & Nancy Raven (early 1930s)
57. Negerhollands: Alice Stevenson (1987)
58. Nooksack: Sindick Jimmy (1977)
59. Northern Pomo: (1994)
60. Nottoway (an Iroquoian language): last recorded (before 1836)
61. Pentlatch (a Salishan language): Joe Nimnim (1940)
62. Pánobo (a Pano–Tacanan language): (1991)
63. Pochutec (Uto-Aztecan: last documented 1917 by Franz Boas
64. Polabian (a Slavic language): (late 18th century)
65. Sadlermiut: last speaker died in 1902
66. Salinan: (ca. 1960)
67. Shastan family
    1. Konomihu
    2. New River Shasta
    3. Okwanuchu
    4. Shasta: 3 elderly speakers in 1980, extinct by (1990)
68. Sirenik: last speaker died of old age in (1997)
69. Siuslaw: (ca. 1970's)
70. Slovincian (a Slavic language): (20th century)
71. Sowa: last fluent speaker died in (2000)
72. Susquehannock: all last speakers murdered in (1763)
73. Takelma: Molly Orton (or Molly Orcutt) & Willie Simmons (both not fully fluent) last recorded in (1934)
74. Tasmanian: (late 19th century)
75. Tataviam (an Uto-Aztecan language): Juan José Fustero who remembered only a few words of his grandparents' language recorded (1913)
76. Teteté (a Tucanoan language)
77. Tillamook (a Salishan language): (1970)
78. Tonkawa: 6 elderly people in (1931)
79. Tsetsaut (an Athabaskan language): last fluent speaker was elderly man recorded in (1894)
80. Tunica: Sesostrie Youchigant (ca. mid 20th century)
81. Ubykh: Tevfik Esenç (October 1992)
82. Most dialects of Upper Chinook (a Chinookan language) are extinct, except for the Wasco-Wishram dialect. The Clackamas dialect became extinct in the (1930's), other dialects have little documentation. (The Wasco-Wishram language is still spoken by five elders).
83. Upper Umpqua: Wolverton Orton, last recorded in (1942)
84. Vegliot Dalmatian: Tuone Udaina (Italian: Antonio Udina) (10 June 1898)
85. Wappo : Laura Fish Somersal (1990)
86. Weyto: while attested as living in 1770, 18th century explorers could find no fluent speakers
87. Wiyot: Della Prince (1962)
88. Yana: Ishi (1916)
89. Yola related to English: (mid-19th century)