Usually means: No longer spoken by communities.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word dead language:

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  1. dead language: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. dead language: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. dead language: Vocabulary.com
  4. dead language: Wordnik
  5. dead language: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. dead language: Wiktionary
  7. Dead language, dead language: Dictionary.com
  8. Dead language: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. dead language: Rhymezone
  10. dead language: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  11. dead language: FreeDictionary.org
  12. dead language: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. dead language: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. dead language: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (dead language)

▸ noun:  A language which no longer has any native speakers.

Similar:
corpus language, dead air, dead letter, languagelessness, dead metaphor, speakerlessness, deadzone, dead-leg, dead zone, deadness, more...

Opposite:
living language, spoken language, modern language

Types:
Latin, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, Old English, Aramaic, Coptic, Etruscan, more...

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Similar:
corpus language, dead air, dead letter, languagelessness, dead metaphor, speakerlessness, deadzone, dead-leg, dead zone, deadness, more...

Opposite:
living language, spoken language, modern language

Types:
Latin, Sanskrit, Classical Greek, Old English, Aramaic, Coptic, Etruscan, more...



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