How do people reconstruct dead languages in the way they are spoken?

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Okay, how do people reconstruct dead languages in the way they are spoken? I know that for physical archeological artifacts, you can reconstruct them, but for languages? How do people reconstruct a dead language in terms of how they are spoken and what they sound like?

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It’s only possible when sister or daughter languages are still known. And even then it has a lot of assumptions in place.

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