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Latin has no first-language speakers, so that makes it a dead language by definition. That's different from being an extinct language, which means that it would
by fasterik 3y ago
Latin has no first-language speakers, so that makes it a dead language by definition. That's different from being an extinct language, which means that it would have no first- or second-language speakers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language
- andylynch 3y agoClassical languages like Latin are a bit of a special case - for instance new works and translations /imto/ Latin are still occasionally published (Hobbitus Ille for instance is stocked in certain bookstores here)
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