Talk:List of extinct languages of Asia

Questionable examples
4pq1injbok (talk) 13:57, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Han'er. As far as I can tell from that page, there are two distinct things called Han'er, one just a stage of Chinese influenced by Mongolian/Jurchen/Khitan that developed into some modern dialects (ergo doesn't belong), and one a purely written language with all sorts of Mongolian calquey features (which was never spoken ergo doesn't belong).
 * Sogdian. That page says "remnants evolved into Yaghnobi" -- what's "remnants" supposed to mean here, just that it fell from the status of a literary language?  That doesn't make it extinct.

--96.60.253.230 (talk) 23:59, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Sanskrit. Sanskrit is a formalized version of the language ancestral to modern Indic languages. Including it in a list of languages with "no spoken descendant" is analogous to including Classical Latin or Attic Greek in such a list. It's not clear to me that the term 'extinct' should exclude attested languages with very divergent living descendants, but if the introductory paragraph says so, the list should should conform.


 * I'm not an expert in this area, so I can't comment on the examples... What this list needs is references. I'll add a tag. Melchoir (talk) 05:28, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
 * But, there are a few thousand native speakers of Sanskrit (different from Latin or Classical Greek), so it isn't an extinct language. --Thogo 04:52, 27 July 2012 (UTC)