8. Bactrian Language
Extinct: 10th Century
Up next in our list of extinct languages in India and Asia we have the language that belonged to the family of Indo-European group of languages, and it was spoken during the rules of the empires such as Kushan and Hephthalite. The territory where these empires were present was the territory of the Central Asia, more precisely the parts of today’s Afganistan. However, the influence of the official language Dari was strong enough to make this one disappear. Recently, many legal documents and letters written in Bactrian were discovered, and that discovery contributed to getting to know more about this extinct language.
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