• circuitfarmer
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    1342 years ago

    dead language

    If people learn it, and people use it, it is by definition not a dead language.

    This is some colonialist BS.

    • @User_4272894
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      182 years ago

      Also, over half a million Welsh speakers exist in Wales, accounting for roughly 20% of the population. It’s hardly dead.

    • @vsg
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      42 years ago

      Also, isn’t Welsh the Celtic language with the most native speakers?

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      Well Latin is a dead language, people do learn and use it. But there is no new words, or evolution of the language.

    • @[email protected]
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      2 years ago

      Resurrected Language might be a better way to put it, the Welsh that people speak today is mostly an academic construction (which also applies to French and Portuguese, that isn’t meant as an insult).

      • @ziggurism
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        82 years ago

        what do you mean about french and portuguese being academic reconstructions?

      • @aidan
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        42 years ago

        For French it is an insult. Descriptivism is lame

      • @kadu
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        32 years ago

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      • circuitfarmer
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        22 years ago

        Modern Hebrew is another good example of this. Possibly the most successful language revitalization project of all time.