List of extinct languages of Asia

List of extinct languages of Asia

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

China

*Khitan
*Saka
*Tocharian
*Yurchen
*Zhang-Zhung
*Tangut

Korea

*Goguryeo

Central and Northern Asia

*Hunnic
*Khazarian

Siberia

* Sireniki Eskimo language
* Yugh language

India

*Ahom
*Andamanese languages
**Aka-Bea
**Aka-Bo
**Aka-Cari
**Aka-Jeru
**Aka-Kede
**Aka-Kol
**Aka-Kora
**Akar-Bale
**Oko-Juwoi
*Arwi

ri Lanka

*Arwi
*Veddah
*Kaffir

Thailand

*Phi

Near East

Anatolia

*Phrygian
*Trojan
*Anatolian languages
**Carian
**Hittite
**Luwian
**Lycian
**Lydian
**Mysian
**Palaic
*Hattian
*Urartian
*Galatian

Arabia

*Hadhramautic
*Minaean
*Nabatean
*Qatabanian
*Sabaean
* Himyarite language

Caucasus

*Ubykh

Iranian Plateau

*Avestan
*Elamite
*Azari language

Levant

*Ammonite
*Eblaite
*Edomite
*Kassite
*Moabite
*Phoenician
*Ugaritic

Mesopotamia

*Akkadian
*Amorite
*Hurrian
*Kassitic
*Sumerian


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