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If there isn't good documentation, linguists must reconstruct the language using whatever written stories or religious texts remain, and then borrow words, grammatical structures, and pronunciation from closely related languages, ... How Do You Learn a Dead Language ... How would you go about learning a language that nobody speaks?
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www.slate.com/id/2182949/
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Help someone!; Get the latest questions in Learning languages ... 1) I learned Latin and Old Greek, which are considered dead languages (although they were used widely for the Catholic mass until the end of the 20th century. None of the languages you mentioned is a dead language.
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www.answerbag.com/q_view/587699
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370. Many verbs compounded with ad, ante, con, in, inter, ob, post, prae, prō, sub, super, and some with circum, admit the Dative of the indirect object:—; 1. “neque enim adsentior eīs ” (Lael. 13) , for I do not agree with them. 1.68) , virtues are always connected with pleasures.; 5. ... July 31, 2006...
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itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003402.htm...
itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003402.html
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Languages dying out each week - who cares? ... We watch Fermor learning to enjoy life as it comes, framing it with cheerfully amateur scholarship, fascination with exotic cultures and the romantic past. He describes pangs of guilt at staying for so long with hospitable gentry in their chateaux, but it is hard now not to feel...
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www.otherlanguages.org/
www.otherlanguages.org/
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The difficulty of learning the dead languages does not arise from any superior abstruseness in the languages themselves, but in their being dead, and the pronunciation entirely lost. It would be the same thing with any other language when it becomes dead. ... The best Greek linguist, that now exists, ... Like what you see?
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www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/05/30/why-are-de...
www.fireandknowledge.org/archives/2007/05/30/why-are-dead-languages-hard-to-learn-paine/
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Computer E-mail Lists for Individual Languages, or, The List of Language Lists ... Endangered Languages; P40.5 ... Sign languages; P117, E98.55, HV2474-HV2476...
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www.evertype.com/langlist.html
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List-servers for a wide variety of language studies, from Nostratic to Spanish and Tolkien. ... This page has been moved to a new location. You will be forwarded there automatically in about five seconds. Once there, please update your bookmarks accordingly. ... If you aren't taken automatically to the new page, please click...
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www.indigo.ie/egt/langlist.html
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in North America only Navajo usage is increasing, and even the relatively "healthy" languages like Cherokee--spoken by 22,000 people--are threatened by low percentages of children learning the languages. It is true that in the natural course of ... If the lost languages of the Americas can all be as dead as Latin, then,
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www.native-languages.org/revive.htm
www.native-languages.org/revive.htm
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But members of the board and my own colleagues have sometimes asked me questions which indicate that it might not be entirely pointless to restate some facts about the study of these so-called "dead" languages. ... The answer is this is that greater learning can be concentrated in a smaller area in the study of Latin.
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department.monm.edu/history/faculty_forum/Fox_dead_lang...
department.monm.edu/history/faculty_forum/Fox_dead_languages.htm
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