Originally Posted By: latishya
 Originally Posted By: Branshea
...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!')

Last edited by The Pook; 03/26/2008 11:50 PM.