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Meanings of lost language in English

A language that does not have any active speakers any more.

Usage of lost language in English
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Shadow-traceries of bough and leaf still seem to me like the hieroglyphics of a lost language.
A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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I needed a lost language.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
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South Africa's lost language Katrina Esau, 84, is teaching local children how to speak N|uu from a wooden shack in Upington.
The South African
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Its secret would be safe as long as the Universe endured, for no one now would ever read the lost language of Earth.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
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And it was the Rosetta Stone that gave the answer to these doubters and restored to the world a lost language and a forgotten literature.
A History of Science — Volume 4
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There is more than one reason, one comes to realise, why Marani -an Italian -chose Finnish as the lost language of his hero.
The Guardian
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His reputation grew with the novel The Lost Language of Cranes (1987).
The Irish Times
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Two years later Leavitt's first novel, The Lost Language of Cranes, appeared to fine reviews.
The Irish Times
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'It's a lost language, possibly - probably - lost even to these remnant creatures.
The Descent
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"Who are you?" he asked in the lost language of Danu Talis.
The Necromancer
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Lost language: how Macau gambled away its past Read more How many of them will be alive when it closes?
The Guardian
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