How can Latin truly be a “dead language” if we can still translate and learn it?

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How can Latin truly be a “dead language” if we can still translate and learn it?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

The deffinition of a dead language according to Cambridge dictionary: a language that is no longer spoken by anyone as their main language. Latin in’t spoken natively by anyone so it’s a dead language

Anonymous 0 Comments

Nobody speaks it as a first language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct_language