as a "dead" language. If it is dead, [Nicholas] Ostler argues, the seeds of its demise may have lain within what gave it life: the very institutions (Rome, Christianity, scholastic learning, humanism) that disseminated it so wide and fierce.But Ostler wonders aloud: Is it really dead?
from John Timpane: Philadelpia Inquirer: The epic, and relevant, story of the Latin language
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