So the jewish folk managed to resurrect hebrew from the dead. If you could bring a dead language back to life whihc would it be and why? I guess latin would be rather useful. Decoding old manuscripts and such like.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 14:22
Classical Chinese. It cannot be spoken, but at least write it!
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Anonymous2009-12-27 14:30
Latin. Well, Latin is still used in some cases, but it's mostly dead in regards to day-to-day life.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 15:31
Sumerian. Fuck yeah.
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Anonymous2009-12-27 16:01
A language we know little to nothing about, like Etruscan or Thracian. Maybe even one of the languages that must have been used in Europe before the arrival of Indo-European languages.
Also it's kind of false that Hebrew was revived. They constructed a language that it some ways resembles ancient hebrew but you'd be surprised at how different modern hebrew is comparatively.
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Pāli would be nice. There is a lot of native Buddhist text written in sanskirt though and as I understand the two languages are similar to an extent.
>Latin is nothing compared to these languages.
I disagree. For me, the "top 5" are
Classical Latin,
Attic Greek,
Old Chinese,
Sanskrit and
Quranic Arabic.
These five langs are called "CLASSICAL LANGUAGES" for a reason.
>Also it's kind of false that Hebrew was revived. They constructed a language that it some ways resembles ancient hebrew but you'd be surprised at how different modern hebrew is comparatively.
Not so many if you look language's structure. But yes, vowels are Iidiche's.
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I think he was talking about a nigger language. Not sandnigger.
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Anonymous2010-09-19 15:18
>>33 >>34
I am not a nigger, however an old nigger language would be interesting to see, especially one that had a lot of clicks.
An old language from Siberia would be cool too.
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Anonymous2010-09-19 18:36
>>36
"Nigger language" is an oximoron.
Niggers don't speak, they grunt.