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dead language
If people learn it, and people use it, it is by definition not a dead language.
This is some colonialist BS.
Also, over half a million Welsh speakers exist in Wales, accounting for roughly 20% of the population. It's hardly dead.
Well Latin is a dead language, people do learn and use it. But there is no new words, or evolution of the language.
Not really, there is an office at the Vatican charged with maintaining orthodox Latin, and they are also responsible for neologisms for contemporary concepts, so that they can weigh in on cell phones, hot dogs, or weapons of mass destruction.
One example:
"hot pants" -> "brevíssimae bracae femíneae"
Also, isn't Welsh the Celtic language with the most native speakers?
Resurrected Language might be a better way to put it, the Welsh that people speak today is mostly an academic construction (which also applies to French and Portuguese, that isn't meant as an insult).
what do you mean about french and portuguese being academic reconstructions?
For French it is an insult. Descriptivism is lame
It does not apply to Portuguese.
Modern Hebrew is another good example of this. Possibly the most successful language revitalization project of all time.