What use is a dead language?
Every country needs an everyday language for chattering and gossiping, foe reading and writing. So long as people keep ,using it, it is a busy, living language. If people stop using it, it becomes a dead language. It goes cut of everyday style. But a dead language may find other: useful work to do. Nobody knows when our ancestors started main words. They lived and worked around in small family groups, The members of each tribe awiags and bit by bit their words grew into a language. The members of the tribe could use their own 131nguage. But they were baffled by the other languages that had grown up along with other tribes. All these different tongues were living languages because they were kept busy and useful every day. And a living language is somewhat like a living person. It grows and it changes. It keeps on growing and changing as long as a group of people keep using it as their very own work day language. In the modern world, there are more than 2,700 living languages. Many are s