Top 10 Dead Languages
dead and forgotten well sorta welcome to while summer spoken in specific circumstances or developed into modern variants these ancient languages have been lost to the passage of time number Iberian if sid meier taught us anything it's that colonisation and indigenous cultures do not mesh well together a prehistoric civilization that existed in parts of southern and eastern Spain IBO was heavily influenced by Greek and Phoenician culture but maintained its own distinctive flavor including a unique language while a couple of iberian scripts have survived very few of the words can actually be translated in the language fell out of use once the Iberian Peninsula joined the Roman Empire and started to use Latin number Etruscan hailing from what is nowadays known as Tuscany this language was primarily used by the Etruscan civilization who lived in close proximity to ancient Rome founded around 700 BC thousands of inscriptions have been discovered in parts of Italy the Mediterranean and Egypt while the alphabet was likely derived from Greek  scholars remain unsure about Etruscans influence or origin primarily due to the language being rather indecipherable interestingly very little is known about the civilization itself with both the Romans and Etruscans opting against preserving their history or literature number 8 honey history tends to remember the Huns as barbaric savages who forced the Roman Empire to its knees but there was more to this nomadic tribe than meets the eye a multi-ethnic Confederation consisting of subjugated societies the Huns spoke hunnic gothic and a variety of other languages as the Huns were not big on the written word scholars depend on third party accounts for information on hunnic and the vocabulary is limited to three nouns due to the civilizations cultural diversity and the limited evidence Punic has been linked to a variety of languages including Turkic indo-european and take number seven Coptic moving away from its predecessors reliance on hieroglyphs and cursive writing Coptic served as Egypt spoken language from the second to the 17th century the final evolution of ancient Egyptian founded on the Greek alphabet and a handful of demotic signs the afro-asiatic language births six unique dialects whose usage varied according to geographical position while Coptic was rarely used outside of its territory and eventually gave way to Egyptian Arabic attempts have been made since the 19th century to revive its use the languages influence can still be seen in the names of various cities and survives as the religious language of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria number six Old Norse never dreamed of talking like a Viking if yes Old Norse is worth learning dating back to approximately the 9th century Old Norse morphed from proto norse and marked the start of the Viking era just chuck me on your Willard Jonah seola new Osho Kooning a llama turn forming part of the North Germanic family variants of Old Norse were spoken throughout Scandinavia and in areas conquered by the Vikings similarly to Latin and Catholicism Old Norse held significant spiritual value for Germanic people and the language presence can be felt in its scandinavian descendants like Icelandic and Swedish luckily for Thor fans Old Norse can still be learned today give me a Thea thought I thought everything number five Middle English partially inspired by Old Norse and French Middle English transitioned from Old English as synthetic sentences to a more direct and analytical style system the sage and the assault was saysit at Troy the Borg written it and Brent to bran Dassin Tosca's due to Britain's defeat at the hands of William the Conqueror Anglo Saxon was pretty much eradicated in Middle English became associated with the uneducated masses regional and improvised the language started to gain that saw the release of Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John wick lives daring translation of the Bible Middle English established a grammatical focus on word order over inflectional endings and a shift towards a more heterogeneous vocabulary I appointed a crow not land was because they had a data of past events number four Aramaic even if Hebrew stole a bit of the spotlight scholars believe that Jesus actually spoke Aramaic with a history spanning 3,000 years this semitic language hails back to an ancient Mesopotamian civilization known as the Arameans while Alexander the Great's subjugation of the Persian Empire established Greek as the Middle East's formal language aramaic continued to be spoken in palestine and was used for a couple of sections of the old testament it was not until the seventh century that aramaic started to fade out in favour of arabic while a modern form of the language does exist neo aramaic consists of a few different dialects miss Satine - harem i 8 number 3 ancient egyptian with the written word harboring back to around 3400 BC only Sumerian predates the dialect of the Pharaohs separated into four different periods ancient Egyptian found its footing with the establishment of the old kingdom and can be found scribbled onto the site of pyramids and sarcophagi employed for religious medical and literary texts ancient Egyptian was a highly developed language that lasted for nearly four millennia as Coptic was influenced heavily by Greek and Arabic speaking settlers ancient Egyptian barely holds any influence over Egypt's modern tongue number two ancient Greek johann yeha Cunha alloys the segrete inhale any stir up something while Mesopotamia and early ancient Egypt mostly used writing to maintain records ancient Greece embraced the written words potential for individual expression the language of Homer Plato and Sophocles ancient Greek can be traced back to the ninth century BC and continues to be taught although the Phoenicians served as a source of inspiration Greece contributed the first full alphabet and several letters including a and B have stood the test of time while English has only been indirectly affected by the language Greek mythology has greatly influenced modern literature and many scientific terms are derived from ancient Greek not quite at the end yet almost there though just be sure to subscribe to our newsletter  and ring the bell to be notified about our latest article  all right back to business number one Latin by Jake wood ah geez dad dad you die so tell us until the Lawton acted as the Catholic Church's primary tongue for religious services but the language no longer has any native speakers due to the Roman Empire's expansion and the later establishment of Christianity in Britain Latin was the Western world's most influential language for over a thousand years and continues to be practiced in certain academic or religious settings even if English's core vocabulary is inherited from proto-germanic thousands of words including vice versa alter ego and etc are borrowed directly from Latin and the works of Roman writers like Virgil are universally studied do you  agree with our picks check out this  other recent clip from watch mojo and be sure to subscribe and ring the bell to be notified about our latest articles you! 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