A data set containing a information on 642 extinct languages.
Source:R/extinct_languages.R
extinct_languages.RdA long-form data set scraped from wikipedia containing an information about 642 extinct languages. Information on the data, language family, region, and terminal speakers is provided if available. The table curated by scraping multiple tables from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_time_of_extinction
Format
A data frame with 642 rows and 7 columns:
- language
Name of the language (in English)
- date
Approximate date when the language went extinct
- century
Century in which the language went extinct
- language_family
Family of the language
- region
The region where the language was spoken
- terminal_speaker
Information about the terminal speaker, if available
- notes
Misc. notes