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OTOH The number of people capable of understanding latin or greek is rather small. Language can go extinct in a way that nobody can learn them anymore
by throwaway1892 10y ago
OTOH The number of people capable of understanding latin or greek is rather small.
Language can go extinct in a way that nobody can learn them anymore
- dom0 10y agoThere is nothing keeping more people from learning it, though; as soon as a few people have learned it, the knowledge about a language can be proliferated to others. It's just that we generally don't care a lot (beyond employing a few thousand(?) people world-wide per language) for ancient texts.