5. Tambora Language
Extinct: 19th Century
The 5th place on our list of top 10 extinct languages in India and Asia goes to Tambora language, and there are various reasons for that. It is not quite clear to which group of languages Tambora language belongs, so at many places it is just marked as not being classified at all, though it is mostly similar to those languages which belong to Austronesian language family. It was spoken in Southeast Asia by the people of the Tambora culture who were mostly traders and sailors, on the territory of today’s Indonesia. The eruption of Mount Tambora that occurred in 1815 destroyed the whole village, and the language as well did not remain in use long after it.
