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An extinct language may be narrowly defined as a language with no native speakers and no descendant languages. Under this definition, a language becomes extinct upon the death of its last native speaker, the terminal speaker. A language like Latin is not extinct in this sense, because it evolved into the modern Romance languages; it is impossible to state when Latin became extinct because there is a diachronic continuum (compare synchronic continuum) between ancestors Late Latin and Vulgar Latin on the one hand and descendants like Old French and Old Italian on the other; any cutoff date for distinguishing ancestor from descendant is arbitrary. For many languages which have become extinct in recent centuries, attestation of usage is datable in the historical record, and sometimes the terminal speaker is identifiable. In other cases, historians and historical linguists may infer an estimated date of extinction from other events in the history of the sprachraum.
| Date | Language | Language family | Region | Terminal speaker | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 September 2026 | Chaná | Charruan | Entre Ríos, Argentina and Uruguay | Blas Wilfredo Omar Jaime | Undergoing revitalization since 2013. Jaime's daughter Evangelina also speaks Chaná. |
| 7 March 2026 | Hupa | Na-Dene | California, United States | Verdena Parker | Undergoing revitalization since the 1970s. |
| 16 October 2025 | Lekwungen dialect of North Straits Salish | Salishan | British Columbia, Canada | Čeyɬəm (Elmer George) | |
| 20 September 2025 | Aurê-Aurá | Tupian | Maranhão, Brazil | Aurá | |
| 14 July 2025 | Caddo | Caddoan | Oklahoma, United States | Edmond Johnson | Under a process of revitalization since 2022. |
| by 2024 | Mawes | Northwest Papuan? | West Papua, Indonesia | ||
| 2 May 2023 | Columbia-Moses | Salishan | Washington, United States | Pauline Stensgar | |
| by 2023 | Itonama | Isolate | Beni Department, Bolivia | ||
| by 2023 | Kuyubí dialect of Moré | Chapacuran | Rondônia, Brazil | ||
| 5 October 2022 | Mednyj Aleut | Mixed Aleut–Russian | Commander Islands, Russia | Gennady Yakovlev | |
| 19 April 2022 | Quapaw | Siouan | Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States | Ardina Moore | |
| 16 February 2022 | Yahgan | Isolate | Magallanes, Chile | Cristina Calderón | |
| by 2022? | Moghol | Mongolic | Herat Province, Afghanistan | Unknown if still spoken. | |
| 25 September 2021 | Wukchumni dialect of Tule-Kaweah Yokuts | Yokuts | California, United States | Marie Wilcox | |
| 27 August 2021 | Yuchi | Isolate | Tennessee (formerly) and Oklahoma in the United States | Maxine Wildcat Barnett | |
| 7 March 2021 | Bering Aleut dialect of Aleut | Eskimo-Aleut | Kamchatka Krai, Russia | Vera Timoshenko | |
| after 2020 | Dompo | Niger–Congo | Brong-Ahafo region, Banda District, Ghana | ||
| 27 July 2018 | Tuscarora | Iroquoian | North Carolina, United States | Howard "Howdy" Hill | Under a process of revival. |
| 4 April 2020 | Aka-Cari dialect of Northern Andamanese | Great Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | Licho | |
| 23 March 2019 | Ngandi | Gunwinyguan | Northern Territory, Australia | C. W. Daniels | |
| 4 January 2019 | Tehuelche | Chonan | Patagonia, Argentina | Dora Manchado | |
| November 2018 | Sapé | Isolate | Venezuela | Ramón Quimillo Lezama | |
| 2018 | Patwin | Wintuan | California, United States | Bertha Wright Mitchell | Being taught in schools and learned by adults. 1 speaker reported in 2021. |
| 2017 | Air Matoa | Etna Bay, Indonesia | |||
| by 2017 | Hokkaido Ainu | Ainu | Hokkaido, Japan | Semispeakers remain. | |
| 9 December 2016 | Mandan | Siouan | North Dakota, United States | Edwin Benson | |
| 30 August 2016 | Wichita | Caddoan | Oklahoma, United States | Doris McLemore | |
| 29 July 2016 | Gugu Thaypan | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | Tommy George | |
| 11 February 2016 | Nuchatlaht dialect of Nuu-chah-nulth | Wakashan | British Columbia, Canada | Alban Michael | |
| 4 January 2016 | Whulshootseed dialect of Lushootseed | Salishan | Washington, United States | Ellen Williams | |
| by 2016 | Marti Ke | Western Daly | Northern Territory, Australia | Patrick Nudjulu or Agatha Perdjert | |
| 4 February 2014 | Klallam | Salishan | Washington, United States | Hazel Sampson | being taught as a second language on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State |
| January 2014 | Torona | Atlantic–Congo | South Kordofan, South Sudan | Karaɽul Alunga Almendi | |
| 5 June 2013 | Livonian | Uralic | Latvia | Grizelda Kristiņa | Under a process of revival. 1 native speaker as of 2020. |
| 26 March 2013 | Yurok | Algic | California, United States | Archie Thompson | Under a process of revival. |
| by 2013 | Demushbo | Panoan | Amazon Basin, Brazil | 1 speaker in 2010. | |
| 2 October 2012 | Cromarty dialect of Scots | Indo-European | Northern Scotland, United Kingdom | Bobby Hogg | |
| 11 July 2012 | Upper Chinook | Chinookan | Oregon, United States | Gladys Thompson | |
| 10 March 2012 | Holikachuk | Na-Dene | Alaska, United States | Wilson "Tiny" Deacon | |
| 2012 | Andoa | Zaparoan | Peru | Hipólito Arahuanaza | |
| 2012 | Mardijker | Portuguese-based creole | Jakarta, Indonesia | Mimi Abrahams | |
| c. 2012 | Dhungaloo dialect of Taribelang | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | Roy Hatfield | |
| 10 April 2011 | Apiaká | Tupian | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Pedrinho Kamassuri | |
| 2011 | Lower Arrernte | Pama-Nyungan | Northern Territory, Australia | Brownie Doolan Perrurle | |
| 24 October 2010 | Pazeh dialect of Pazeh–Kaxabu | Austronesian | Taiwan | Pan Jin-yu | |
| 20 August 2010 | Cochin Indo-Portuguese Creole | Portuguese-based creole | Southern India | William Rozario | |
| 26 January 2010 | Aka-Bo | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | Boa Sr. | |
| by 2010 | Piru dialect of Luhu | Austronesian | Maluku, Indonesia | ||
| November 2009 | Aka-Kora | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | Ms. Boro | |
| 22 February 2009 | Great Andamanese koiné | Andamanese | Andaman Islands, India | Nao Jr. | |
| 2009 | Olrat | Austronesian | Banks Islands, Vanuatu | Maten Womal | |
| 2009 | Nyawaygi | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | Willie Seaton | |
| by 2009 | Papora-Hoanya | Austronesian | Taiwan | ||
| 30 July 2008 | Tübatulabal | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | James Andreas | |
| 24 February 2008 | Plains Apache | Na-Dene | Oklahoma, United States | Alfred Chalepah Jr. | [citation needed] |
| 21 January 2008 | Eyak | Na-Dene | Alaska, United States | Marie Smith Jones | |
| 2008 | Oroch | Tungusic | Khabarovsk Krai, Russia | [citation needed] | |
| 10 August 2007 | Gros Ventre | Algic | Montana, United States | Theresa Lamebull | |
| 2007 | Northeastern Maidu | Maiduan | Central California, United States | Under process of revival | |
| by 2007 | Rusenu | Trans–New Guinea? | eastern East Timor | ||
| by 2007 | Hpun | Sino-Tibetan | Myanmar | ||
| 11 July 2006 | Wasco dialect of Upper Chinook | Chinookan | Oregon, United States | Madeline Brunoe McInturff | |
| 2006 | Omurano | Isolate | Peru | Esteban Macusi | |
| 2006 | Aghu Tharnggala | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | ||
| 2006 | Ludza dialect of South Estonian | Uralic | Latvia | Nikolājs Nikonovs | |
| by 2006 | Zumaya | Afroasiatic | Cameroon | Most speakers have shifted to Fula. | |
| after 2005 | Warluwarra | Pama-Nyungan | Australia | No speakers reported in 2021 census | |
| 3 November 2005 | Osage | Siouan | Oklahoma, United States | Lucille Roubedeaux | being revived |
| 2005 | Berbice Creole Dutch | Dutch-based creole | Guyana | Bertha Bell | |
| 2005 | Kerek | Chukotko-Kamchatkan | Chukotka | Ekaterina Khatkana | |
| 2005 | Northern Pomo | Pomoan | California, United States | [citation needed] | |
| by 2005 | Barrow Point | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | Urwunjin Roger Hart | |
| 20 September 2004 | Nüshu script | unclassified | Hunan, China | Yang Huanyi | |
| 2004 | Umotína | Bororoan | Mato Grosso, Brazil | Julá Paré | |
| 2004 | Uru | Uru–Chipaya | Iru-Itu, Bolivia | Julia Vila | |
| c. 2004? | Duli–Gewe | Niger-Congo | Cameroon | ||
| 29 December 2003 | Akkala Sami | Uralic | Kola Peninsula, Russia | Marja Sergina | 4 rememberers persisted as of 2018. |
| 22 November 2003 | Wintu | Wintuan | California, United States | Flora Jones | |
| 14 September 2003 | Klamath-Modoc | Plateau Penutian | Oregon, United States | Neva Eggsman | |
| September 2003 | Garig-Ilgar | Pama-Nyungan | Northern Territory, Australia | ||
| 2003 | Nonuya | Witotoan | Colombia | Humberto Ayace | |
| by 2003 | Areba | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | ||
| by 2003 | Atampaya | Pama-Nyungan | Queensland, Australia | ||
| by 2003 | Makolkol | unclassified | New Britain, Papua New Guinea | possible Papuan language | |
| 4 November 2002 | Serrano | Uto-Aztecan | California, United States | Dorothy Ramon | being revived |
| 31 August 2002 | Unami | Algic | Delaware, United States | Edward Thompson | |
| 23 May 2002 | Gaagudju | Isolate | Northern Territory, Australia | Big Bill Neidjie | |
| 2002 | Tandia | Austronesian | West Papua, Indonesia | Speakers shifted to Wandamen. | |
| 2002 | Akurio | Cariban | Suriname | ||
| by 2001 | Amanayé | Tupian | Brazil | ||
| by 2001 | Umbugarla | Arnhem Land languages or Darwin Region languages |
Northern Territory, Australia | Butcher Knight | |
| by 2001 | Ngurmbur | Arnhem Land languages or Darwin Region languages |
Northern Territory, Australia | Butcher Knight | |
| by 2001 | Bahuana | Arawakan | Brazil | Claudina de Souza Soares | Language had recently gone extinct by 2001 |
| 2000 | Máku | Isolate | Roraima, Brazil | Sinfrônio Magalhães (Kuluta) | |
| 2000 | Sowa | Austronesian | Pentecost, Vanuatu | Maurice Tabi | |
| c. 2000 | Pémono | Cariban | Venezuela | Juanita Garcia | |
| c. 2000 | Mapia | Austronesian | Mapia Atoll, Indonesia | [citation needed] | |
| c. 2000 | Mesmes | Afroasiatic | Ethiopia | Abegaz | |
| c. 2000 | Kamarian | Austronesian | west Seram Island, Indonesia | [citation needed] | |
| c. 2000 | Apolista | Arawakan | Apolobamba | It is possible there are still a few very old speakers. There may be two distinct languages under this label. | |
| c. 2000 | Rennellese Sign Language | unclassified | Solomon Islands | Kagobai | |
| c. 2000 | Wanham | Chapacuran | Brazil | Firmino Miguelem | |
| by 2000 | Central Pomo | Pomoan | Northern California | [citation needed] | |
| 2000s | Torá | Chapacuran | Brazil | few semispeakers remain |
| Date | Language | Language family | Region | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| late 18th century | Esuma | Kwa | southern Côte d'Ivoire | |
| late 18th century | Maipure | Arawakan | Upper Orinoco region | |
| late 18th century | Ruthenian | Indo-European | Eastern Slavic regions of Poland-Lithuania | Evolved into Belarusian, Ukrainian and Rusyn. |
| after 1794 | Chiriba | Panoan | Moxos Province, Bolivia | Attested only with the wordlist of 7 words in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. |
| after 1794 | Magiana | Arawakan | Bolivia | Attested only with the wordlist of 7 words in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. |
| after 1794 | Ramanos | unclassified (isolate?) | Moxos Province, Bolivia | Attested only with the wordlist of 7 words in Palau, Mercedes and Blanca Saiz 1989 [1794]. |
| c. 1790s | Powhatan | Algic | eastern Virginia, United States | |
| after 1788 | Otomaco | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | Known from a wordlist by Father Gerónimo José de Luzena written in December of 1788. |
| after 1788 | Taparita | Otomakoan | Venezuelan Llanos | |
| 26 December 1777 | Cornish | Indo-European | Cornwall, England | with the death of Dolly Pentreath |
| after 1770 | Tamanaku | Cariban | Venezuela | |
| 1770 | Cuman | Turkic | north of Black Sea; Hungary | with the death of István Varró |
| c. 1770s | Abipón | Mataco–Guaicuru | Argentina | |
| by 1765 | Muisca | Chibchan | Colombia | |
| after 1763 | Susquehannock | Iroquoian | Northeastern United States | After the Conestoga massacre. |
| by 1763 | Quingnam | unclassified | Department of La Libertad, Peru | |
| 1760 | Galwegian dialect of Scottish Gaelic | Indo-European | Scotland, United Kingdom | with the death of Margaret McMurray |
| 3 October 1756 | Polabian | Indo-European | around the Elbe river, Poland/Germany | with the death of Emerentz Schultze |
| 1740 | Pumpokol | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | |
| late 1730s | Arin | Yeniseian | central Siberia, Russia | with the death of Arzamas Loskutov |
| after 1709 | Dzubukuá | Kariri | Pernambuco, Brazil | Revival since 1989 by modern Kariri-Xokó people |
| 18th century | Ajem-Turkic | Turkic | Iran, Eastern Anatolia, the South Caucasus and Dagestan | Evolved into Azerbaijani. |
| 18th century | Classical Gaelic | Indo-European | Ireland and Scotland, United Kingdom | The literary language. Fell out of use with the collapse of Gaelic society. |
| 18th century | Coahuilteco | Isolate/unclassified | Mexico; Texas, United States | |
| 18th century | Loup | Algic | Massachusetts and Connecticut, United States | |
| 18th century | Manao | Arawakan | Brazil | |
| 18th century | Plateau Sign Language | Contact pidgin | Columbia Plateau, United States | |
| early 18th century | Apalachee | Muskogean | Florida, United States | |
| early 18th century | Old Prussian | Indo-European | Poland | being revived |
| by 18th century | Merya | Uralic | Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia | Reconstructed within the ideology of Meryan ethnofuturism from local toponymy and dialectology of the Upper Volga region in the 21st century. |
| 17th to 18th century? | Acaxee | Uto-Aztecan | Northwestern Mexico | unattested; all known documentation has been lost |
| 17th to 18th century? | Xixime | Uto-Aztecan? | Northwestern Mexico | |
| by 1700 | Pidgin Delaware | Delaware-based pidgin | Delaware, United States | |
| late 17th century | Sudovian | Indo-European | Lithuania | |
| after 1699 | Kipeá | Kariri | Eastern Brazil | |
| after 1666 | Old Kentish Sign Language | Village sign language | Kent, England | |
| after mid-17th century | Favorlang | Austronesian | Taiwan | |
| after 1643 | Narragansett | Algic | New England, United States | |
| after 1640 | Yao | Cariban | Trinidad and French Guiana | Attested in a 52-word 1640 word list recorded by Joannes de Laet. |
| after 1633 | Shebayo | Arawakan | Trinidad | |
| c. 1635 | Jurchen | Tungusic | Manchuria, China | Evolved into Manchu. |
| after 1618 | Carolina Algonquian | Algic | North Carolina, United States | |
| 17th century | Andalusi Arabic | Afroasiatic | southern Spain | |
| 17th century | Armeno-Kipchak | Turkic | Crimea | |
| 17th century | Adhari | Indo-European | Iranian Azerbaijan | |
| 17th century | Basque–Icelandic pidgin | Basque–Icelandic Pidgin | Iceland | |
| 17th century | Cazcan | Uto-Aztecan | Mexico | |
| 17th century | Curonian | Indo-European | Latvia | |
| 17th century | Ebro Valley Aragonese | Indo-European | Ebro Valley | |
| 17th century | Etchemin | Algic | Maine, United States | |
| 17th century | Gorgotoqui | Macro-Jê | eastern Bolivia | A 17th-century grammar has been lost. |
| 17th century | Navarrese Romance | Indo-European | Kingdom of Navarre | |
| 16th–18th century | Gorgani | Indo-European | Gorgan | |
| late 16th century | Knaanic | Indo-European | Czech Republic; Poland | |
| late 16th century | Laurentian | Iroquoian | Quebec/Ontario, Canada | |
| after 1586 | Palta | unclassified | Ecuador | known from only 4 words |
| after 1548 | Taino | Arawakan | The Bahamas and Puerto Rico | |
| c. 1535 | Cueva | Chocoan (?) | Darién Province, Panama | The Cueva people were exterminated between 1510 and 1535 during Spanish colonization. |
| after 1516 | Mamluk-Kipchak | Turkic | Egypt and Syria | |
| after 1502 | Tangut | Sino-Tibetan | northwestern China; southern Mongolia | |
| 16th century | Guanahatabey | unclassified | Pinar del Río Province and Isla de la Juventud, Cuba | only known from placenames |
| 16th century | Guanche | unclassified, maybe Berber | Canary Islands, Spain | |
| 16th century | Judaeo-Portuguese | Indo-European | Belmonte, Portugal | |
| 16th century | Meshchera | Uralic | Meshchera Lowlands | |
| 16th century | Navarro-Aragonese | Indo-European | southern Navarre, Spain | Aragonese is still spoken as a minority language in Spain. |
| 16th century | Old Novgorod | Indo-European | Novgorod Republic | |
| 16th century | Semigallian | Indo-European | Latvia; Lithuania |
There are no native speakers of Ainu left in Japan.
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Indeed, by 1994, reportedly only 12 people used some 200 Lachoudish words. The dialect Lachoudish had its day; it is now extinct
The Bala language is said to have become extinct in 1982,
The reputedly last native speaker of Arran Gaelic, Donald Craig (1899–1977)...
Taokas and Luilang might also be associated with this FPS subgroup, but available data on these now-extinct languages are too limited to determine this with any surety.
As to the present status of Kilit, it is a moribund, or more likely extinct, language mentioned and transcribed two or three times by nonlinguists from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The last known data collected was in the 1950s when speakers numbered only a few old men using it probably only as a trade jargon or secret language.
... The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921. The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931. The Akar-Bale of Ritchie's Archipelago, the Aka-Kede of Middle Andaman and the A-Pucikwar of South Andaman Island soon followed. By 1951, the census counted a total of only 23 Greater Andamanese and 10 Sentinelese. That means that just ten men, twelve women and one child remained of the Aka-Kora, Aka-Cari and Aka-Jeru tribes of Greater Andaman and only ten natives of North Sentinel Island ...
Andreev explains that 100 years ago there was an ancient Vanji language used by people of Vanj valley. He then provides as example that in 1925, when travelling to Vanj Valley, him and his travel companion met an old man who told that, when he was 11 years old, he was speaking Vanji language. Unfortunately, the old man could remember only 20-30 words, but even then, he was not sure if they were all correct.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921.
This lect is the descendant of the Fergana Kipchak language that went extinct in the late 1920's.
She is probably best known for her cylinder recordings of Aboriginal songs, recorded in 1899, which are the only audio recordings of an indigenous Tasmanian language.
Present state of the language: Extinct probably in the early 20th century, no exact date available
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of June 2026 (link)Rangkas was recorded in the Western Himalayas as recently as the beginning of the 20th century, but is now extinct.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)A pidginized variety of Japanese called Yokohamese or Japanese Ports Lingo evolved during the reign of Emperor Meiji from 1868 to 1912, and largely disappeared by the end of the nineteenth century.
Material from 15th-19th centuries AD.
Solombala-English, first investigated by Broch (1996), probably developed during the "English period" in the history of the city of Archangel, from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century.
István Varró, a member of the Jász-Cuman mission to the empress of Austria Maria Theresa and the known last speaker of the Cuman language, died in 1770.
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Hence, Gurgani must have died out sometime after the fifteenth but certainly before the nineteenth century
Even towards the end of the Mamluk period, during the reign of the last sultan al-Ghawri (1501-1516), the Mamluk, called Asanbay min Sudun, copied the religious Hanbali tract of Abu al-Layth in Kypchak language for the royal library.
the 11th century, to the end of the 15th century
Became extinct between 1920 and 1940.
15th century AD?
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Siculo Arabic is the term used for the variety (or varieties) of Arabic spoken in Sicily under the Arabs and then the Normans from the 9th to 13th centuries.
Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD...
100 BC - 1000 AD.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Most of the material in this language originates from the 3rd to 10th centuries AD, though it was probably spoken as early as the 5th century BC.
extinct since 850
extinct since 850
extinct since 850
6th-8th Centuries AD.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)the Khüis Tolgoi inscription must have been erected between 604 and 620 AD.
The echoes of native Cappadocian could be heard into the sixth century and perhaps beyond.
Following the Roman invasion of Egypt in 30 BC the use of hieroglyphics began to die out with the last known writing in the fifth century AD.
5th century AD.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)The last mention of Phrygian in use dates from the fifth century AD.
i.e. first century BC to fourth century AD
The earliest dated Palmyrene inscription is from the year 44 BC and the latest discovery has been dated to the year 274 AD.
These inscriptions are concentrated in northwest Arabia, and one occurs alongside a Nabataean tomb inscription dated to the year 267 CE.
... the Kharosthi script was used as a literary medium, that is, from the time of Asoka in the middle of the third century B.C. until about the third century A.D.
A minority of dated texts suggest that the practice of carving Safaitic inscriptions spanned at least from the second century BCE to the third century CE.
300-150 BC.
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7th century BC - 100 AD.
They are thought to date from the first two centuries AD.
ca. 150-50 BC
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Very few inscriptions exist, all from the 1st century BC.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)The inscriptions of Asoka - a king of the Maurya dynasty who reigned, based in his capital Pataliputra, from 268 to 232 BC over almost the whole of India - were engraved in rocks and pillars, in various local dialects.
The ingredients of group consciousness mentioned above were kept alive principally because the Sinhalese people had a literate culture starting from about the third century B.C.
c. 200 BC.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)Kassite (Cassite) was a language spoken by Kassites in northern Mesopotamia from approximately the 18th to the 4th century BC.
6th century BC to 4th century BC.
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Dadanitic was the alphabet used by the inhabitants of the ancient oasis of Dadan, probably some time during the second half of the first millennium BC.
Therefore, at least part of the Taymanitic corpus can safely be dated to the second half of the 6th century BCE.
...and Pre-Samnite (500 BC).
The development of the Classical tradition on the subject of the Cimmerians after their disappearance from the historical arena, no later than the very end of the 7th or very beginning of the 6th century BC
According to the Assyrian annals Dūma was the seat of successive queens of the Arabs, some of whom were also priestesses, in the eighth and seventh centuries BC.
820-730 BC.
The Kaška first appear on the territory of the Hittite empire in the 15th c. B.C. and are mentioned till 8th c. B.C.
... no tablets or any other inscribed vessels were found from ca. 1200 BC onwards.
2500-1900 BC.
3rd Millenium BC.
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