Sidenote: English a Living Language} Our own is, of course, a living language still.
A living language therefore is one which abundantly deserves this name; for it is one in which, spoken as it is by living men, a vital formative energy is still at work.
Still the Latin syntax must have been tolerably understood; and we may therefore say that Latin had not ceased to be a living language, in Gaul at least, before the latter part of the seventh century.
When Latin had thus ceased to be a living language, the whole treasury of knowledge was locked up from the eyes of the people.
Certainly, however, the laws of quantity were forgotten, and an accentual pronunciation came to predominate, before Latin had ceased to be a living language.
If we now turn to Italy, we shall find, as is not wonderful, rather more frequent instances of acquaintance with a living language, in common use with a great neighbouring people.
The scholastic philosophers wholly neglected their style, and thought it no wrong to enrich the Latin, as in some degree a living language, with terms that seemed to express their meaning.
Latin as a living language, had by this time extended to even the smallest of the English grammar schools.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "living language" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
