Comment on Game designed to save dying Aboriginal language wins global awards
Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 day agoThis might not be totally the right definition, but I think it is:
Latin is dead, but we still understand it. There’s no one left who speaks it really, but we know how to use it.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Isn’t the ‘dead’ part more that nobody speaks it as a mother tongue any more, so it doesn’t really evolve like a living language would even though it’s still spoken in specific contexts? I think it contrasts with an extinct language which nobody speaks for any reason.