(July 23, 2022 at 12:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: It's widely claimed that Latin is a dead language, because, it is no longer commonly spoken, but, it does persist in some tiny traditional Catholic monastic circles, and so, I don't think that it is completely dead. Plus, it is said/sung in the Tridentine Mass.
A dead language means that us has no native speakers - no one today learns Latin as a first language, so it qualifies as ‘dead’. A language with no speakers at all is called an ‘extinct’ language.
There’s another category for little-spoken languages called ‘dormant’, but I don’t remember what the standards are (and can’t be arsed to look them up).
Boru
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