dead language as a noun: - 1
dead language
noun
1 dead language
A language that is no longer learned as a native language.
Dutch: dode taal
Polish: język martwy
dead languages
noun
Roget 560:
language;
phraseology
etc.
569;
speech
etc.
582;
tongue,
lingo,
vernacular;
mother tongue,
vulgar tongue,
native tongue;
household words;
King's English,
Queen's English;
dialect
etc.
563.
confusion of tongues,
Babel,
pasigraphie†;
pantomime
etc.
(signs)
550;
onomatopoeia;
betacism†,
mimmation,
myatism†,
nunnation†;
pasigraphy†.
lexicology,
philology,
glossology†,
glottology†;
linguistics,
chrestomathy†;
paleology†,
paleography;
comparative grammar.
literature,
letters,
polite literature,
belles lettres [Fr.],
muses,
humanities,
literae humaniores [Lat.],
republic of letters,
dead languages,
classics;
genius of language;
scholarship
etc.
(scholar)
492.
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