Historical language

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Historical languages are languages that were spoken in a historical period which evolve into later forms (like Ancient Greek into Modern Greek), or that undergo language death and become extinct. Historical linguistics is the study of historical languages.

Contents 1 List 1.1 Neolithic 1.2 Bronze Age 1.3 Iron Age 1.4 Medieval languages 1.5 Early Modern age

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[edit] Neolithic

Reconstructed proto-languages of the Neolithic or Chalcolithic.

• Proto-Indo-European
• Proto-Semitic

[edit] Bronze Age

• Ancient Egyptian language
• Sumerian language (extinct)
• Akkadian language (extinct)
• Proto-Greek, Mycenaean Greek
• Proto-Indo-Iranian, Vedic Sanskrit
• Hittite language, Luwian (extinct)

[edit] Iron Age

• Avestan language
• Old Persian (continued in Persian).
• Latin, Oscan
• the dialects of Ancient Greek, of which Attic was continued in the Koine and Modern Greek.
• Sanskrit, at least partly continued in Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages
• Proto-Celtic
  • Proto-Insular Celtic, continued in modern Celtic languages
  • Continental Celtic (extinct)
• Proto-Germanic, continued in modern Germanic languages

[edit] Medieval languages

• Vulgar Latin (continued in the Romance languages)
• Gothic language (extinct)
• Old Frankish, Old Low Franconian/Old Dutch, Middle Dutch (continued in Modern Dutch)
• Old High German, Middle High German (continued in Modern German)
• Old English, Middle English (continued in Modern English)
• Old French (continued in Modern French)
• Old Norse (continued in modern Scandinavian languages)
• Old Church Slavonic

[edit] Early Modern age

• Early Modern English