Favourite Dead Language?

[Kirav]

There are, sadly, far too many to fit in a poll.

My personal favourite is Newfoundland Irish.

[Yootopia]

French.

[Nanatsu no Tsuki]

Old English.

[Eofaerwic]

French.

Langue morte, mon oeil!

Although on that topic Walloon isn't quite dead, but it's on its way out and always very confusing to hear because it sounds enough like french you feel you should understand it (as a french-speaker) but is different enough to be completely incomprehensible.

I have to say I do like some of the old english regional dialects, but more due to how you can see how they've evolved into modern dialects more than anything (apparently if you speak old english with a geordie accent, it's half way understandable by Newcastle natives)

[Dolbri]

I voted ancient Greek. It's beautiful and capable of putting a ton of nuances in just a short sentence.

[Zeikden]

Latin

I took 4 years of it only to come to college and have it be not acceptable for my major's language requirement.

[No Names Left Damn It]

These languages aren't so much dead as evolved into new ones.

[South Lorenya]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

[Conserative Morality]

Latin. Omnia dicta fortiora si dicta Latina

[Conserative Morality]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

Bah. No one cares about the Vatican.

[South Lorenya]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

Bah. No one cares about the Vatican.

How I wish that was true!

Unfortunately, some people disagree.

[Dolbri]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

I heard the Pope's latest encyclical is delayed because they're not sure how to translate terms like "credit crisis" into Latin.

[Land of the Trolls]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

I heard the Pope's latest encyclical is delayed because they're not sure how to translate terms like "credit crisis" into Latin.

How do they talk about airplanes or the Internet?

[Rhursbourg]

Cumbric

[Conserative Morality]

How I wish that was true!

Unfortunately, some people disagree.

I blame it on the Communists.

[Eofaerwic]

Cumbric

They're trying to revive it... I suspect it may not work well since we've lost most of the vocabulary.

[Iron Chariots]

(psst: there's a sovereign state that has Latin as an official language. it's not much of a country, but...)

I heard the Pope's latest encyclical is delayed because they're not sure how to translate terms like "credit crisis" into Latin.

How do they talk about airplanes or the Internet?

A bunch of elderly white guys? They probably don't know they exist.

[Kirav]

Cumbric

They're trying to revive it... I suspect it may not work well since we've lost most of the vocabulary.

I would think so as well. Though if they do manage to revive another Celtic language, I shall be very happy.

[Sarkhaan]

Hebrew: the zombie language.

[Eofaerwic]

Cumbric

They're trying to revive it... I suspect it may not work well since we've lost most of the vocabulary.

I would think so as well. Though if they do manage to revive another Celtic language, I shall be very happy.

Efforts may be better spent keeping those on life support still alive, like Cornish. Still it would be nice from an academic point of view if Cumbrian could be revived somwhat, I have doubts it'd ever effectively enter common usage however.

[City of Norfolk]

Modern day English that was spoken in the U.S. and U.K.
Before the media and culture totally mutilated it, so now people say
"I gots my hair did yesterday"
or
"That ain't mines!"
or better yet
"What you be doin'?"

[Buffett and Colbert]

Do the petroglyphs the Taíno Indians made count?

[Sarkhaan]

Modern day English that was spoken in the U.S. and U.K.
Before the media and culture totally mutilated it, so now people say
"I gots my hair did yesterday"
or
"That ain't mines!"
or better yet
"What you be doin'?"

You mean the exact same thing contemporary English did to Elizabethan English? And the same thing Early Modern did to Middle English? And so on?

Face it. Every language currently spoken is the bastard child of a previous generation.

[Minnas]

Do the petroglyphs the Taíno Indians made count?

If they depict a language that was actively spoken by the Taino, I'm sure they would count.

[Daistallia 2104]

Eyak