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Extinct Languages Of India

Maniam PS [Guru]
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It could be quite interesting to know what are the Indian languages we have lost through the ages. Please try and recollect and list down the Indian languages that has become completely extinct today.

Posted On : 4/17/2009 1:45:19 AM

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Suparna Sen
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The list of extinct languages of India are: Ahom Andamanese languages Aka-Bea Aka-Bo Aka-Cari Aka-Jeru Aka-Kede Aka-Kol Aka-Kora Akar-Bale Oko-Juwoi Arwi Sanskrit

Posted On : 4/17/2009 4:46:37 AM

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Bidyut Nath
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One of the ancient and extinct languages of India is the Andamanese language. These were spoken by the indigenous people of the Andaman Islands. There are two clusters of Andamanese languages, Great Andamanese and Ongan, plus Sentinelese, which is unknown and therefore unclassifiable. The indigenous Andamanese peoples have lived on the islands for thousands of years, and for the great majority of this period their societies and languages have remained quite undisturbed by external influences. From the 1860s onwards, the setting up of a permanent British penal colony and the subsequent arrival of immigrant settlers and indentured labourers mainly from the Indian subcontinent brought the first sustained impacts upon these societies, particularly among the Great Andamanese groups. By the turn of the 20th century most of these populations were greatly reduced in numbers, and the various linguistic and tribal divisions among the Great Andamanese effectively ceased to exist. Ideally therefore their linguistic diversity also suffered as the surviving populations intermingled with one another, and some also intermarried with Karen Burmese and Indian settlers. By the latter part of the 20th century the majority of Great Andamanese languages had become extinct.

Posted On : 4/17/2009 5:05:30 AM

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Darshil Jal daru khanewala
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hello friends, The Ahom language is an extinct language. Also known as the Tai-Ahom, the language was once spoken by the Ahom people who ruled most of Assam from 1228 to 1826. It was then the sole court language of the Ahom kingdom and it enjoyed this status till about the 15th 16th century, when it made way for Assamese. The language fell into complete disuse by the 19th century and even the phonemics of this Ahom language has been lost completely

Posted On : 4/17/2009 6:54:17 AM

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Abhi Tripathi [Guru]
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Arwi is an Arabic-influenced dialect of Tamil. this was once randomly used by the Muslim minority of Tamil Nadu state of India and Sri Lanka. As a spoken language it is extinct now, although a very less amount of madrasas still teach the basics of the language as part of their courses of study.

Posted On : 4/17/2009 6:56:44 AM

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