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Why did Latin become a dead language? |
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Evolution. After the fall of the Roman Empire, languages evolved into local variants of the Latin tongue, producing our modern Romance languages. (It's technically not completely extinct, since the Roman Catholic Church releases "official" updates to the language every so often.)
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