...there are 50.000 fluent speakers for a dead language. Or are there just as many for latin and old Greek?
That number was surprising to me too, I thought it would be higher. The total seems to have come from the 1991 census, I don't know what the 2001 census figure was.
There would be a lot of SPEAKERS of early Greek because of the liturgies of the Orthodox churches. But although they speak it in church, I doubt they actually UNDERSTAND it.
(Yeehah! With this post I finally graduate to being an 'Enthusiast!')
