Living tongues, unlike a dead language, are continually changing in words and meaning.
In all the schismatic churches of the East the Priest in the public service prays not in the vulgar, but in a dead language.
But the Latin, being a dead language, is not liable to these changes.
Latin is a dead language now, but in those days it was the everyday language of Rome, so most of these inscriptions are in Latin.
Locked up in a dead language, kept close, away from the world, they were like the jar of wheat which could not grow.
Thus, by the help of the Rosetta Stone, and after years of patient labour, the long-dead language could be read once more.
It is deplorable that the learned should ever have allowed Latin to become a dead language, since in permitting this they have enormously increased the difficulty of acquiring it, even for the purposes of scholarship.
But the picture of a perfect modern Latinist is purely ideal, and the prevalent notion of high attainment in a dead language is not fixed enough to be a standard, whilst if it were fixed it would certainly be a very low standard.
Compared with living Englishmen my French friend was nowhere, but if English had been a dead language, he would have been looked up to as a very eminent scholar, and would have occupied a professor's chair in the university.
One of them, especially, had attained what would certainly in the case of a dead language be considered a very high degree of scholarship indeed.
But even if Sanskrit were more of a dead language than it really is, all the living languages of India, both Aryan and Dravidian, draw their very life and soul from Sanskrit.
No doubt Sanskrit, in one sense, is a dead language.
Leader Marley rewarded me with a Free Choice, and I chose to learn a dead language.
A dead language, spoken by the ancient Egyptians thirty or forty centuries ago.
In the fifteenth century Latin was a dead language, but the book that had been written a thousand years before received no modification adapting it to the capacities of the German or Dutch boys, to whom Latin was as strange as Chinese.
It is a greater misfortune that all the early chronicles of printing were written in a dead language.
The obscurity is not only that of a dead language: a trained Latin scholar will always grope and often stumble in attempting to make a translation.
To model Latin poems upon Virgil or Catullus is necessary, because Latin is a dead language.
Italian was written with no less effort after formal purity, no less minute observance of rules, than if it had been a dead language.
In him the southern peoples found a voice, which, though it uttered a dead language, expressed their sentiments.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
