The languages that don’t have a word for “extinct” yet.

Atilingo builds the publishing and archival infrastructure for Indigenous African languages: by contributors and communities, for consumers everywhere.

2,317+
Languages on record
476
Never more than a wordlist
43
Language families
125
Already extinct
Adamorobe Sign LanguageFe'fe'HayaSarKonkombaKendejeBilma-Mowar KanuriYasaKom (Cameroon)MvanoToroMfinuGulayMendankwe-NkwenSouthwestern DinkaKonobo-Eastern KrahnBura Sign LanguageIkoNzakambayLimassaXwela GbeLwelKaronDugunGboloo GreboEde NagoSurMwaghavulMboweBialiTunenTiagbamrin AiziYeniSebaYambeSenhaja De SrairNdambomoSouth Sudanese Sign LanguageDawroChadian ArabicKyoliNorthern BurunWaataMbugweGubeeher-Gufangor-GubelorMbePeroLundaNdoeNyamboKanyokFungwaUrhoboAnyinKwaja-NdaktupBagirmi FulfuldeBanda-YangereSãotomenseBirkedGbaya-Bossangoa

Languages on the continent

476 of the 2,317+ languages on record have nothing published beyond a wordlist.

  • Grammar or better
  • Sketch or partial
  • Wordlist or less

How much of each language has ever been written down. The stronger the dot, the less exists. The boldest are languages with nothing but a wordlist.

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