dead languages

1. Languages that are no longer spoken.

Notes

Some dead languages, such as Latin , ancient Greek, and Sanskrit , may nevertheless be studied by large numbers of people because of their literary or historical importance.

Example Sentences

Why should we deem the dead languages no longer a practical study, when Latin can gain for a Frenchman an Irish wife!

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She could never understand how a girl of healthy mind could care for mathematics, exact science, or dead languages.

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Irrepressible and hot-tempered John could not sit down quietly to study dead languages.

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He was therefore not ashamed to instruct young men in the rudiments of the dead languages.

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I wished they were not so far away, those eyes, so absorbed with books and dead and gone people and dead languages.

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