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The Vatican does this with latin too. It became a dead language nonetheless. English always absorbed lots of words from many different languages. I suspect tha
by blue1 17y ago
The Vatican does this with latin too. It became a dead language nonetheless.
English always absorbed lots of words from many different languages. I suspect that this is a better recipe for language vitality than the "National bureau of new words" approach.
- zemoo 17y agoThe Vatican started doing that millenia after there were no native populations of latin-speakers left.
- huherto 17y agoLatin lives on in Spanish, Portuguese, et al.
- req2 17y agoAnd in the same sense, your great-grandmother lives on in you. I'm not sure what you're getting at, especially because the Vatican has had an imperceptible effect on Spanish, Portuguese, et al.