Re: [tied] Ah, look at all the lonely languages

Bingo! That's the answer I was searching for. A language is dead
when no one learns it as a mother tongue. When a mother no longer
speaks the language her mother used is when a language dies.
However, this language can die in one family but still be alive in
others.

Gerry

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> > Agreed that isolated and dead mean two different things.
However, if
> > Latin is dead, then why is it experiencing a re-emergence?
>
> It isn't. It is just as dead as it was last year. No one learns it
as a
> mother tongue. It may, however, be experiencing a resurgence as a
learnt
> language.
>
> Peter