What Makes a Language 'Dead' or 'Living'?

A language is 'living' if people still use it to talk, write, and think every day. If no one speaks it anymore, like Latin, then it’s a dead language. Imagine your favorite toy only being played with by ghosts, that's what happens to dead languages!

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Latin is like an old knight who used to be brave but now just sits in the castle reading books.
English was once a small group of people talking, now it's spoken by millions across the globe!
A language can live on through movies, songs, and stories even if not many people speak it anymore.

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