Languages Lost to Time by Li Haidong Singapore

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Top Five Languages Lost to Time

• By Li Haidong

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1 Hunnic
The Huns never really bothered about preserving
their language in the form of scripts or texts,
but what is known about this language is that a
lot of words in the Hunnic language has been
taken from Roman scholars, yet due to the very
few inscriptions and evidence of this language
left, experts are still trying to reconstruct
words and alphabets in Hunnic.
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2 Dacian
The Dacian language which is known to have been
extinct since the 6th or 7th century, it was
spoken by people living in Dacia, the modern day
Romania. Only one inscription in the Dacian
language survives, thus making it difficult for
experts to decipher and translate the language,
the Dacian is said to have its links with
Indo-European languages, and is considered to be
a dead branch in languages.
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3 Kansas Barbed Wire Museum
The Eteocretan language is considered a Linear A
language developed by the Minoans of Crete, an
island in present day Greece. This language along
with being Linear A is also written by the people
having the knowledge of the Cretan hieroglyphics.
Till date, no experts have been able to trace
this language or decipher anything related to
this language, which leave Eteocretan as a
mysterious and dead language.
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4 Glore Psychiatric Museum
The Harappan language of spoken by the people
living during the modern Indus Valley
Civilization, but no one really knows the origins
and when this language came about to die in the
world. Many people and experts have linked the
Harappan language to Indo-European and Dravidian
language, but no one is really sure of which one
of them is Harappan closely related to.
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5 Meroitic
Meroitic, also known as Kushitic, was spoken by
the people of the old Nubian civilization which
exists in modern day Sudan. This language was
influenced by the Egyptian culture but not
completely taken or picked up from the Egyptian
language as the Kushites developed and created
their own script, different from hieroglyphics or
Demotic.
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