List of extinct languages of North America

List of extinct languages of North America

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

Canada

*Beothuk
*Laurentian
*Newfoundland Irish
*Pentlatch
*Tsetsaut
*Wyandot

United States

*Abnaki, Eastern
*Adai
*Alsea
*Atakapa
*Barbareño
*Biloxi
*Cayuse
*Chehalis
*Chimariko
*Chitimacha
*Coquille
*Costanoan, Northern
*Costanoan, Southern
*Cowlitz
*Cruzeño
*Delaware, Pidgin
*Eel River Athabaskan
*Esselen
*Etchemin
*Eyak
*Galice-Applegate
*Hanis
*Ineseño
*Iowa-Oto
*Island Chumash
*Jersey Dutch
*Karkin
*Kathlamet
*Kitsai
*Kwalhioqua-Clatskanie
*Loup A
*Loup B
*Lower Chinook
*Lumbee
*Mahican
*Maidu, Valley
*Martha's Vineyard Sign Language
*Massachusett
*Mattole-Bear River
*Miami-Illinois
*Miluk
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*Mobilian
*Mohegan
*Molala
*Nanticoke
*Narragansett
*Natchez
*Nooksack
*Northern Kalapuyan
*Obispeño
*Ofo
*Pamlico
*Piro
*Pomo, Eastern
*Pomo, Northern
*Powhatan
*Purisimeño
*Quiripi-Naugatuck-Unquachog
*Salinan
*Shasta
*Shinnecock
*Siuslaw
*Susquehannock
*Takelma
*Tillamook
*Tonkawa
*Tsetsaut
*Tunica
*Tutelo
*Twana
*Upper Umpqua
*Ventureño
*Wappo
*Wiyot
*Wyandot
*Yana
*Yaquina
*Yonkalla

U.S. Virgin Islands

*Negerhollands

Mexico

*Chicomuceltec
*Cochimí
*Náhuatl, Classical
*Náhuatl, Tabasco
*Pame Sur
*Tepecano
*Tubar

Bahamas

*Taino


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