> >
> > A computer language is not exactly a native spoken language, but you
> > can apply this test pretty accurately.  For example, Sanskrit.  We do
> > have access to writings in Sanskrit today, it has been preserved, but
> > there is no country where Sanskrit is spoken natively.  It's a dead
> > language but not a lost language.
>
> Yes, that's what I thought too.  And then I found Sanskrit on a list of 
> languages spoken in India today.  
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers_in_India
>  -- about 25k speakers of Sanskrit.  Blew my mind.
>
>         paul
>

crap...bad example.  How about Sumerian then?  lol

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