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Meanings of dead language in английском

русский
мёртвый язык
португальский
língua morta
испанский
lenguas muertas
каталонский
llengua morta

Language that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use.

Related terms
мёртвый язык

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

Синонимы
Examples for "lost language"
Examples for "lost language"
1
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)
2
I needed a lost language.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
3
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
4
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
5
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
Usage of dead language in английском
1
And here, reading the dead language, my little book of Roman Law.
The ginger man
2
It doesn't have to be some cryptic verse in a dead language.
Mob rules
3
In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us.
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
4
It was not a dead language then, as it is now.
For Greater Things: The Story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka
5
You had rather have to master the dead language than the live tongues?
The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations
6
Safety is becoming a dead language while the dangers remain.
Rock and Ice Magazine
7
Other deposits were soon discovered, and bit by bit the dead language was deciphered.
Last and First Men
8
The Greeks had nothing alien to study-noteven a foreign or a dead language.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
9
When a language becomes fixt it becomes a dead language.
The Columbiad: A Poem
10
It seems impossible to make you realize that English is not a dead language.
The Native Born; or, the Rajah's People
11
It would be enough if they could 'learn it grammatically as a dead language.
Eminent Victorians
12
None of your Latin endings, or any other dead language.
The Wonder Island Boys: Conquest of the Savages
13
Red tape, a dead language, and a horde of shysters!
The Spoilers
14
Imperial C words, words out of history, the dead language given new and mutated life.
Children of Time
15
The old Bactrian tongue in which the Avesta was composed became practically a dead language.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations
16
It's often said that Latin is a dead language
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Translations for dead language
португальский
língua morta
Dead language through the time
Dead language across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common