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Language Endangerment Status byUNESCOAtlas of the World's Languages in Danger category
Extinct (EX)
Extinct (EX)	(lists)
Endangered
Critically Endangered (CR) Severely Endangered (SE) Definitely Endangered (DE) Vulnerable (VU)	(list) (list) (list) (list)
Safe
Safe (NE)	no list
Other categories
Revived (RE) Constructed (CL)	(list) (list)
Related topics Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger Endangered Languages Project Ethnologue Unclassified language List of languages by total number of speakers
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This article is a list oflanguages anddialects that haveno native speakers, nospoken descendants, and that diverged from their parent language in South America.

There are 176 languages listed.

According to Ethnologue 2024,^[1] the following languages of Argentina are currently believed or confirmed to be extinct:

• Abipón
• Chané
• Lule
• Selkʼnam
• Puelche
• Vilela
• Yámana

Ethnologue 2024^[2] classifies the following Brazilian languages as extinct:

• Kakauhua
• Chono
• Selkʼnam

• Yaio

• Skepi Creole Dutch
• Berbice Creole Dutch

• Kunza (Argentina & Chile)
• Yahgan (Argentina & Chile)

• Charrúa
• Güenoa

• Extinct languages of the Marañón River basin
• List of unclassified languages of South America
• List of indigenous languages of South America

• Lists of extinct languages
• Languages of South America
• South America-related lists

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