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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: Why did latin, a language spoken by a huge portion of Europe, completely die?
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Plenty of folks have pointed out that it didn't die, it just transformed, as languages do.

A more interesting question is: why do we *remember* Latin, and not all the other ancient language-forms? Old English, for example, is just as dead, but hardly anyone besides linguists knows about it or speaks it. The Church has kept the ancient version of this one language alive.