How many dead languages are there in the world?

A dead language also known as extinct language is a language that no longer have living native speakers. Many languages have gone into extinction. Here is a brief information on the number of dead languages in each continent.

Africa: 52 dead languages. Sudan and Nigeria have the highest number 10 and 8 respectively.

Asia: 109 dead languages. China, India, Central Asia and Siberia have the highest numbers.

Central America and Caribbean: 10 dead languages. Nicaragua has the highest number (3).

Europe: 143 dead languages. Italy, Russia, Northern and Central Europe and British Isles have the highest numbers.

North America: 109 dead languages. United states has the highest number of dead languages.

South America : 179 dead languages. Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina and Ecuador have the highest numbers.

This sums up to a total of 602 dead languages all over the world.

Scientists believe that of the 7,000 native languages that are spoken today, half of them could be extinct by the end of the current century. Since the turn of the current century back nearly 20 years, there has been well over a dozen of languges that have been ruled to have become dead or extinct. Some of these so-called dead languages are Sowa and Luau.

These are two languages that came from the island nations that are located in the Pacific Ocean. In the United States, the Indian lanauge of the Osage Indians fo Oklahoma has been determined to be dead. A lot of the known dead languages nearly always came from indigenous areas like the Polynesian islands of the Pacific and the tribes that are known to have come from South America and Africa. There is certainly a very long and complex list of dead languages that are around and were prevelant at one time in the world.