Coptic is an extinct language, in the sense that it has no native speakers.
However, extinct languages may be in effect purely written when only their writings survive.
It may also refer to texts written in the extinct Gothic language.
Their speech is all very similar, and also similar with other languages now extinct.
Turkey has historically been the home to many now extinct languages.
However, often the evidence is a survey among the current population of the area, which would not identify extinct languages such as Ware.
If eventually no one speaks the language at all, it becomes an extinct language.
It is a nearly extinct language, with one of its last native speakers having died in February 2009.
Saimar, a nearly extinct language, is spoken by only four people in one village, as of 2012.
In what follows we will use the conventional sign - for extinct languages.