Answers.Body: <p>I am not aware of any attempts at building machine translation for extinct languages specifically, but I would see this as a sub-field of machine translation for low resource languages. The techniques applied to low resource languages should also be applicable to extinct languages, as those are, naturally, low resource languages.</p>
  <p>For an overview over machine translation for low resource languages, see <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00486" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Haddow et al., 2022: Survey of Low-Resource Machine Translation</a>. This could be a starting point for you research.</p>
  
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Body: <p>Are there any attempts to make translation models support ancient/extinct languages like Sumerian, Ancient Greek, Old Norse, Cornish, etc.?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Please, next time, share with us your findings so far. I'd encourage users to do a quick google search before asking this type of question.
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ThreadText: # Are there any attempts to make translation models support ancient/extinct languages?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-11-13)
  
  Are there any attempts to make translation models support ancient/extinct languages like Sumerian, Ancient Greek, Old Norse, Cornish, etc.?
  
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  > **username_1**: Please, next time, share with us your findings so far. I'd encourage users to do a quick google search before asking this type of question.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2024-11-14. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  I am not aware of any attempts at building machine translation for extinct languages specifically, but I would see this as a sub-field of machine translation for low resource languages. The techniques applied to low resource languages should also be applicable to extinct languages, as those are, naturally, low resource languages.
  
  For an overview over machine translation for low resource languages, see [Haddow et al., 2022: Survey of Low-Resource Machine Translation](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.00486). This could be a starting point for you research.
  
  
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