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dead language
noun
A language which no longer has any native speakers
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I wanted to learn a dead language.
Dead language reveals inert thinking.
LOVE IN A DEAD LANGUAGE: A Romance, by Lee Siegel.
Such phrases are from a dead language to us.
For a supposedly dead language Latin exerts an enduring appeal.
But finding the time and teachers to teach even one dead language properly is hard enough.
But the language of politics stays the same, and it is a dead language.
Nothing dates like technology, but some of the dance's movement vocabulary is also dead language.
Jameson calls it "pastiche": "the wearing of a linguistic mask, speech in a dead language".
I repeatedly get told that: 1. Nobody speaks Cornish, and 2. It's a dead language.
"This is harder than learning a new language because it's basically a dead language.
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