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DEAD LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A language that is no longer learned as a native language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("dead language" is a kind of...):
language; linguistic communication (a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols)