> Latin is dead I know what you mean, but I've always found that such a curious expression. There's an unbroken line of native speakers being taught by other s

> Latin is dead I know what you mean, but I've always found that such a curious expression. There's an unbroken line of native speakers being taught by other speakers from every person native in French, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese, Walloon, ... to a person speaking some variant of Latin. By that definition, every single language from more than a thousand years ago is dead. It seems to me Latin is more alive than ever, with about a billion speakers, it's just that they don't all quite understand each other.