> > > > 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
