| Elamite language, extinct language spoken by the Elamites in the ancient country of Elam, which included the region from the Mesopotamian plain to the Iranian Plateau. |
| It is much more likely that it is merely a rare or previously extinct language. |
| If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an extinct language. |
| Welsh emerged in the 6th century from Common Brittonic, the common ancestor of Welsh, Breton, Cornish and the extinct language known as Cumbric. |
| Jessie Little Doe Baird, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe, in Massachusetts, received a MacArthur grant, in 2010, for her efforts to revive her people's extinct language, Wôpanâak. |
| But an extinct language can re-appear, UNESCO says, and this is what the Yaaku are trying to achieve. |
