Is Latin A Dead Language?
No one speaks it as their first language anymore, because it’s ancient and as someone else mentioned, it’s has never been updated, therefore impossible to use in modern society if no words exist for modern things. However, I wouldn’t say it has “died”, because we still use it for science, as you mentioned, like the names of plants. I would say that it’s evolved, not dead, yet not alive, but still being used. Many languages have come from Latin, including some English words, and we still use English don’t we? People still speak Italian. People still speak Spanish. Yet all languages evolve. Think of Old English. No one uses that, and if they still do they have serious issues. But look at the way it changed to how it is today. Technically, Latin is still thriving, yet on a much different scale which has changed over the hundreds of years.
