Sentence examples for language died from inspiring English sources

During the period of the Roman Empire, the native Phoenician language died out in Lebanon and was replaced by Aramaic as the vernacular.

The poet and scholar Damaso Alonso, director emeritus of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, died at home Wednesday after a long illness.

Mordkhe Schaechter, a leading Yiddish linguist who spent a lifetime studying, standardizing and teaching the language, died yesterday in the Bronx.

Geoffrey Hill, a poet regularly hailed as the greatest in the English language, died suddenly on 30 June at the age of 84.

Louise Bogan, one of the most distinguished lyric poets in the English language, died yesterday at her home at 709 West 169th Street.

José García Nieto, a poet and novelist who won the 1996 Cervantes literature prize in Spain for his lifelong contribution to the Spanish language, died here on Tuesday.

Most of the older people die away and the language dies with them".

"It's estimated that every two weeks a language dies," he informs us.

"When a language dies, a window closes and the world is a darker place".Poetic stuff.

(Mr. Greene is right when he says that however new the idea, old language dies hard).

If the historical rate of loss is averaged, a language dies about every four months.