Noun
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living language (plural living languages)
A language which is still spoken in the contemporary period, as opposed to a dead language.
Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance. Gabrielle Roth
"Albanian is an Indo-European language, but like modern Greek and Armenian, it does not have any other closely related living language. Source: Internet
However they had largely lost touch with the content of their surviving works because the use of Greek as a living language was restricted to the lands of the Eastern Roman Empire ( Byzantium ). Source: Internet
The 2013 edition of Ethnologue catalogs just over 7,000 living human languages. citation A "living language" is simply one that is used as the primary form of communication of a group of people. Source: Internet
His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Source: Internet
His poems have been translated to every living language know. Source: Internet