Dead-languages Sentence Examples

dead-languages

  • To meet that dissatisfaction, the teachers had accepted new subjects of study, had improved their methods, and had simplified the learning of the dead languages.

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  • Hence in the case of dead languages or past forms of living languages, it is often very difficult to define with precision what the sounds of the past epoch were.

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  • In dealing with writings in dead languages this is particularly mischievous.

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