A language go extinct when nobody in the world is able to speak, read, and write the language anymore. I have studied Native American History before, and many native American languages have already extinct. What happened to the native American language was, when European people first came to the U.S 300 hundred years ago, they killed too many Native Americans and moved them into Indian reservation, in middle of nowhere and has no nature resources. As time move on, people do not have enough education resources or any kind of resources, they cannot pass the language to their decedents or the decedents decided to move out of the land. In the end, the language dies because nobody knows how to speak, read, and write the language.
Last year In one of my music class, I was able to meet a Native American Musician. The Native American Musician did a lot of amazing works for movies and he showed us a lot of different native American instruments. During his performance, he sang a native American song from his tribe. After the performance, he said, the native American language has already died, nobody knows how to speak it, and there is only couple pages of the writing left. He was able to so sing the song is because he worked with some linguists to recreate or guess how the language sounds like. I do not think dead language can ever be brought back to life, because people already lost the sources, and even if people do find out how to speak the language again, there will never be enough population to learn the language and keep it up in the future.
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