Re: Typhus and the 5th BC Athenian Plague

In article <44215a0d$0$42108$dbd4d001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
P.Alaca@xxxxxx (Peter Alaca) wrote:

I read that somewhere. I wondered how they know that.
We better start an international breeding program for
endangered languages.

They are extrapolating from previous rates of language
extinction. A live language is usually described as one with
native speakers using it as a birth tongue. In spite of the
number of people who can read and even speak Classical Greek and
Latin they are dead languages.

Ken Young
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