Extinct languages
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- Languages, Extinct
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Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (third edition; Paris: UNESCO, 2010), ed. by Christopher Moseley (page images at Unesco)
- A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910), by Geir Tomasson Zoega (page images in Czech Republic)
- An Icelandic-English Dictionary (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1874), by Richard Cleasby and Gudbrandur Vigfusson, contrib. by George Webbe Dasent
- Om Navnet Ýmir (in Danish; Copenhagen: B. Lunos Boktrykkeri, 1874), by Konráð Gíslason (page images at HathiTrust)
- Old Icelandic: An Introductory Course (Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press in association with the American-Scandinavian Foundation, c1981), by Sigrid Valfells and James E. Cathey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Altisländisches Elementarbuch (second edition, in German; Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1921), by Andreas Heusler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- An Icelandic Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary, by Henry Sweet
- Det Norsk-islandske Skjaldesprog omtr. 800-1300 (in Danish; Copenhagen: S. L. Møllers Bogtrykkeri, 1901), by Finnur Jónsson
- An Icelandic Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary, by Henry Sweet
- Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis (fourth edition, with a biographical memoir of the author; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1907), by Martin Haug, ed. by Edward William West
- The Complete Text of the Pahlavi Dinkard (the surviving books in 2 volumes, in Pahlavi; Mumbai: Society for the Promotion of Researches into the Zoroastrian Religion, 1911), ed. by Dhanjishah Meherjibhai Madan (page images at HathiTrust; pages may be in reverse order)
- The Pahlavi Text "King Husrav and His Boy" Published With its Transcription, Translation and Copious Notes (Paris: P. Geuthner, ca. 1921), ed. by Jamshedji Maneckji Unvala (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Language obsolescence -- Australia- Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia's Indigenous Languages (Sydney: Sydney University Press, c2010), ed. by John Robert Hobson, Kevin Lowe, Susan Poetsch, and Michael Walsh (HTML and PDF with commentary at Sydney University Press)
- Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (third edition; Paris: UNESCO, 2010), ed. by Christopher Moseley (page images at Unesco)
- Glottolog (online edition; 2023), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank (HTML at glottolog.org)
- In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
- The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
- Ethnologue (fifth edition; 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Three Keys to Language (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1952), by Robert M. Estrich and Hans Sperber (page images at HathiTrust)
- Outline of Linguistic Analysis (Baltimore: Linguistic Society of America, 1942), by Bernard Bloch and George L. Trager (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
- University of California Publications in Linguistics (partial serial archives)
- Adamitics, An Essay On First Man's Language; Or, The Easiest Way To Learn Foreign Languages, for The Use of Middle- And Highschools (Budapest: The author, 1914), by Anthony de Velics
- Anti-Chamberlain: Betrachtungen Eines Linguisten Über Houston Stewart Chamberlains "Kriegsaufsätze" und die Sprachbewertung im Allgemeinen (in German; Leipzig: O. R. Reisland, 1918), by Leo Spitzer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
- Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Edward Sapir
- The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML with commentary at sourcetext.com)
- Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
- Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, by Joseph Stalin (HTML at marxists.org)
- Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon Philological and Kindred Subjects (London: Trubner, 1878), by Percy Ellen Algernon Frederick William Sydney Smythe Strangford, ed. by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
- Language Testing Reconsidered (c2007), ed. by Janna D. Fox, Marjorie Bingham Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Cheng, Carolyn E. Turner, and Christine Doe (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- Glottolog (online edition; 2023), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, Martin Haspelmath, and Sebastian Bank (HTML at glottolog.org)
- Bilingualism and Language Contact (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1970; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1970), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)
- Contemporary Perceptions of Language: Interdisciplinary Dimensions (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1982), ed. by Heidi Byrnes (PDF at Georgetown)
- An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London: Printed for S. Gellibrand and J. Martin, 1668), by John Wilkins (multiple formats at Google)
- Of the Origin and Progress of Language (6 volumes (some in second editions); 1774-1792), by James Burnett Monboddo
- all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
- Volume I (second edition, 1774): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II (1774): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (1776): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (1787): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (1789): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (1792): multiple formats at archive.org
- A Book of the Beginnings (2 volumes; London: Williams and Norgate, 1881), by Gerald Massey
- Language Testing Reconsidered (c2007), ed. by Janna D. Fox, Marjorie Bingham Wesche, Doreen Bayliss, Liying Cheng, Carolyn E. Turner, and Christine Doe (PDF with commentary at Ottawa)
- English Next: Why Global English May Mean the End of "English as a Foreign Language" (c2006), by David Graddol (PDF with commentary at britishcouncil.org)
- Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (third edition; Paris: UNESCO, 2010), ed. by Christopher Moseley (page images at Unesco)
- The World Atlas of Language Structures (free online edition), ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Matthew S. Dryer, David Gil, and Bernard Comrie (Javascript-dependent illustrated HTML at wals.info)
- Roots of Language (originally published 1981; this edition Berlin: Language Science Press, c2016), by Derek Bickerton (PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org)
- Anacalypsis (2 volumes; index, appendix, and illustrations omitted; originally published 1833-1836), by Godfrey Higgins (HTML at Tripod)
- Linguistic Discovery (2002-) (full serial archives)
- Language (partial serial archives)
- Alfa: Revista de Linguística (full serial archives)
- Litera (partial serial archives)
- Anthropos (Austria-based journal) (partial serial archives)
- Études Classiques (in French) (partial serial archives)
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