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

From: m_iacomi
Message: 22962
Date: 2003-06-10

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" wrote:

>> Because people have decided that they want to learn it. Being dead
>> doesn't mean that there's something about a language that prevents
>> its being learnt; it just means that the language has no native
>> speakers left.
>
> When has Latin ever had "native" speakers?

Before turning into (Proto-)Romance languages.

Cheers,
Marius Iacomi