When Does A Language Go Extinct? 

Yeah man, Etruscan feels too cool to be lost. We need to conduct more thorough searches across the continent.

There's still a chance it will be found one day, technically

@@kamalkrishnabaral What if it's related to Basque?

We don't have evidence... The few vocabulary we know of etruscan has not shown any apparent relationship with basque words.

There's a non-zero chance that it survives as a charred scroll from Herculanem.

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Quinnor Comby.

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True, but I think it's important to make a distinction from a revived language and an unproductive noncontinuous or cessated revivable language. A revived language is something like Eyak or Livonian, where the original speaker community has put in a concerted effort through community education and regular upkeep of the language with youth in order to bring back the language crucially for an L1 population. Contrast this with unproductive noncontinuous, which like Old English, is revived to some extent due to academic and personal fun purposes. I agree with your statement on the Gothic revival, but I put it in Cessated Revivable instead of Unproductive Noncontinuous because the academic/hobby group of learners is significantly smaller. It is possible that Gothic could be revived in a traditional sense, but another part of the issue is that there are still English people that could potentially want to revive Old English, but there really isn't a descendant East Germanic ethnicity anymore. I thought about where I would put Gothic when I was brainstorming this video, and for these reasons I feel most appropriate putting it in cessated revivable.

​@@ConnorQuimbyas far as I understand, there's a similar problem with Prussian ethnicity, still there are at least several families with bilingual children

@ConnorQuimby I actually paused the video to think about whether gothic would be a cessated language or unproductive language, and then as soon as I unpaused you said gothic, lol. Maybe one day...

​@@astrOtuba There are children who speak Prussian?

@@JoffesThoughts I've read about it in this paper: Language Practices in a Family of Prussian Language Revivalists

Ah good point I didn't notice that, paint.net doesn't have spell check, thanks!

Thanks.

@@ConnorQuimby I realised this comment sounds like I want your channel to go extinct, but quite the opposite, I want to see you thrive. I love your videos and I hope you never cessate. Please don't take this comment as an indication that I'm waiting for your channel to die, I was just tryna be funny