How do linguists understand ancient/dead languages?
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There’s a difference between written and spoken language. So long as teachers exist to continue the tradition of written language, people will understand it even after the language has left the vernacular, or common spoken language.
In some cases this is true, like Latin and ancient Greek, where individuals have learned it from teachers for thousands of years.
In others it is not true, and only through archaeological discovery like the Rosetta Stone (where the same message was inscribed in ancient Greek, Hiroglyphs, and demotic scrypt) scholars can decipher dead written language.
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