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Originally posted by Nebula
No, people still speak it, therefore it is not dead.
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Sorry but that's not how a dead language is defined. You're talking about extinct languages, I'm talking about dead languages.
"A language is often declared to be dead even before the last native speaker of the language has died. If there are only a few elderly speakers of a language remaining, and they no longer use that language for communication, then the language is effectively dead. A language that has reached such a reduced stage of use is generally considered moribund. Once a language is no longer a native language - that is, if no children are being socialised into it as their primary language - the process of transmission is ended and the language itself will not survive past the current generation."
