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Is it possible to revive Classical Latin as a language of ordinary speech?
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Reviving any dead language is not a simple task. Languages die for a large variety of reasons, many of which simply require large swathes of a given population to evolve the language to a point that it slowly becomes unrecognizable to its original incarnation. Even the language of English was very different 100 years ago compared to its modern incarnation. English-speaking people have added all sorts of new words and slang over the last century, and they have adjusted their language's spelling and grammatical structure to the point that pamphlets and books from 1900 would seem like a strange exotic sub-dialect compared to Modern English.

Therefore, reviving a language is essentially impossible for any individual or group of individuals. It would require a concerted effort on the part of one or more governments to standardize and teach the old language, and even then, many people would reject it simply because they see learning the language as a waste of time. Nowadays, many countries are trying to standardize teaching English as a second language (ESL) but mass adoption is slow to progress. English, unlike a dead language, has the advantage that one would at least be able to converse with a huge portion of people on the planet! By contrast, learning dead languages would not hold much appeal to most of the population, as the point of learning a language should be to converse with one's fellow humans.