Another thing that changes this equation is the rise of the Internet. Nowadays it is much easier to create a community of people interested in a particular lang

Another thing that changes this equation is the rise of the Internet. Nowadays it is much easier to create a community of people interested in a particular language, so it is not just a matter of a group of people in a geographical region speaking the language. It just takes a committed family of latin speakers to raise kids that have latin as their first language, and I don't think this is terribly difficult to do in the modern world.