What Makes a Language ‘Dying’ or ‘Alive’?

A language is alive if people use it every day. Imagine you're playing with your friends, and you all speak the same language, that's when a language feels alive. But if no one speaks it anymore, like in a quiet village where everyone moves away, then the language becomes ‘dying.’ It’s like when you stop drawing pictures because you don’t have any crayons left.

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  1. A boy learns to speak Spanish from his grandma, the language lives on.
  2. The last person who spoke a language passed away, now it’s gone.
  3. People in a town all speak the same language when they play games together.

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