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Language Endangerment Status by UNESCO Atlas 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
UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger categories
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This is a partial list of extinct languages of South America, languages which have undergone language death, have no native speakers and no spoken descendant.

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
• Ona
• Puelche
• Vilela
• Yámana

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

• Kakauhua
• Chono
• Selk'nam

• Yaio

• Skepi Creole Dutch

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

• Pawishiana

• Charrúa
• Güenoa

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