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Definition of Dead language
1. Noun. A language that is no longer learned as a native language.
Definition of Dead language
1. Noun. a language which no longer has any native speakers ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dead Language
Literary usage of Dead language
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (1916)
"up sighing with age as he walked on in a lane among heaps of dead language.
His own consciousness of language was ebbing from bis brain and trickling into ..."
2. Of the Origin and Progress of Language by James Burnett Monboddo (1787)
"... may be called a dead language, -whereas what is fpo- ken, is A living language.
— The degeneracy af language and other ..."
3. Poems by Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (1890)
"XVIII dead language. ' Thou dost not wisely, Bard. A double voice is Truth's, to
use at will: One, with the abysmal scorn of good for ill, ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... reign of Queen Elizabeth the epitaph first began to assume a distinct literary
character. But the prejudice in favor of a dead language still survived. ..."
5. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1890)
"It has the advantage of being a dead language, and so long dead that there would
be few mourners to grieve over the horrible mispronunciation and other ..."
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