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DEAD LANGUAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does dead language mean?
• DEAD LANGUAGE (noun)
The noun DEAD LANGUAGE has 1 sense:
1. a language that is no longer learned as a native language
Familiarity information: DEAD LANGUAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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)
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