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Languages extinct in the 5th century

  • Punic languageThe Punic language began to separate from its Phoenician parent around the time that Carthage became the leading Phoenician city under Mago I.
  • Thracian languageIn the year 570, a monk named Antoninus of Piacenza wrote about a monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. He described monks who spoke Greek, Latin, Syriac…