Language Endangerment Status
Extinct (EX)
  • Extinct (EX)
Endangered
  • Critically Endangered (CR)
  • Severely Endangered (SE)
  • Definitely Endangered (DE)
  • Vulnerable (VU)
  • (list)
  • (list)
  • (list)
  • (list)
Safe
Other categories
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Languages in Danger categories

This is a list of extinct languages of Africa, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.

There are 49 languages listed; 11 from Eastern Africa, 8 from Middle Africa, 17 from Northern Africa, 3 from Southern Africa, 10 from Western Africa.

Eastern Africa

Eritrea

Ethiopia

Kenya

Madagascar

  • Vazimba (with Glottolog code, unclassifiable)

Tanzania

Uganda

Middle Africa

Angola

Cameroon

Chad

Democratic Republic of the Congo

Northern Africa

Algeria

Egypt

Sudan

Tunisia

Southern Africa

South Africa

Western Africa

Ivory Coast

Nigeria[1]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Nigerian languages going into extinction – NICO". 8 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-07.
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