When Does A Language Go Extinct?

This video seeks to classify the types of extinct (or "dead") languages into a new categorical system relatively free from confusion.

Intro visuals made by Parelthon

[leaderunithl]

It pains me so much that Etruscan would probably be a revivable language if only Claudius’ Etruscan dictionary managed to survive

[DylanMatthewTurner]

I speak Eteocypriot.

Of course, back then we called it "Anmatumiama" or "Language of the Amathusans."
I'm secretly thousands of years old, and from Cyprus originally. I'm free to say it as no one would really believe me lol.
I was born in 11th century BC, so I'm actually an L2 speaker, and I'm a bit rusty, so maybe "speak" is a strong word. Not fluent anymore.
I knew this guy, Tora, back then. I dont remember much about him except his name tho. It's been too long.
It's really a curse. My mind cannot keep track of much more than 50 years of memories, only fragments of the thousands that have passed me by, unable to move past this world.

[qkenpqu]

gothic actually is undergoing a revival, and I'd go so far as to say there are fluent l2 speakers as much as one could be in an ancient language adapted to the modern day. its worth looking into, considering different revival communities have had schisms on things such as extensive use of reconstructions, calques, and neologisms

[albertmillerelectricbooga]

I wonder if any languages with video attestations (beyond, say, a linguist recording an elderly speaker sing a few songs) have gone extinct lately. Like if a feature film was made in a language to prevent it from "dying" but didn't help, and now is dated forever

[CrysolasChymera]

Dacian: Bygone Residual, almost Unresidual practically.

[vilukisu]

This cateogorization of language death and types of non-living languages is a very good one. You might be interested that this sort of differentiation actually has use in a rather niche topic within philosophy: revival of extinct species. I am studying philosophy at an university and I am writing a brief essay for one of my courses using your video as a source.
Looking forwards to seeing the rest of your work on this topic.

[servantofaeie]

*Spongebob time card voice* 8 months later

[swagmund_freud]

Realized all my conlangs function like antidiluvian langueges.

[nSenuh]

Continuing with my mortality series, at what point do we consider a language to be “dead”, or “extinct”?

[patronsaintoflostcauses]

The return of Connor Quimby. The Quimbster. Quimbtastic. Quimber Comnor

[JohnSmith-ofgu]

The terminology is a little cumbersome, but I like this more gradual scale of language death.

[aknightofislamicarabia]

That was a great video, because it gave me an existential crisis.

[greenguy]

Love when a video uses an incredibly specific question in its title and then aggressively attacks the audience for expecting and/or desiring an answer.

Also, while I am mot happy with the presentation I do support the core concept to a large extent. I think this new system of yours could do with a good hard revision and streamlining. I dont know if the existing terms are wholly usable. But I do think, at the very least, they benefit from the inclusion of additional terms.

[Пумс-пумсПумспумс]

It also tells us about the "antiquity of the language."
All living languages are constantly changing, and therefore they are constantly "resetting" their age. I recently talked about this with one person, I will give my comment here:

If a language has 3-5 native speakers, and they have all been sleeping for 5 hours, and have no dreams in this language, then yes – the language has been for 5 hours! And only those languages that are dead and unremembered “increase” their age. The more the language is used, the more it changes. Latin, according to this model, is a second.
(sorry if it's written clumsily, it's a machine translation)

[dylanplumley]

You should try studying the “Enochian” language. Apparently it is the language of the angels according to some medieval english magicians or something. Really fascinating language, whether it is really the language of angels or just made up by nerds in medieval times is up for debate.

[lifeamateur]

Well, to begin with, the thumbnail of this video has the word "languages" misspelled as "langauges"

[yeetrepublic]

This is why Hebrew should just be called a zombie language

[natheniel]

I love the categories. Hated the names.

[ericabbott]

where would you place Sanskrit? Ir has been somewhat kept going in liturgical use.. at least to my understanding.

[VigiliusHaufniensis]

Asking the real questions, but still don't get why people chose de saussure over peirce tho😭😭😭