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ELI5: Why did Latin die

Why is Latin completely dead? For instance, in Italy, why was the language revamped, if Latin was native to that country. I know that Latin combined with regional dialects around Europe to form the languages we have now, but why in Italy specifically was it changed? Didn’t the Catholic Church push hard to keep it?
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The language wasn't revamped. First and foremost, language changes naturally overtime. The way that words are pronounced just shifts. That's the primary difference between Middle English and modern English. So the Latin spoken by Julius Caesar probably didn't sound the same as the Latin spoken by Constantine, which sounds different from Church Latin. Italian was the product of Latin naturally changing overtime and mixing with not only neighboring languages, but the Gothic, Greek, Arabic, and other languages that invaded modern Italy over the years. 


Second, the church did work to preserve the language, but only within the Church. They didn't really care outside of that. They made Latin the only language that you could use religiously or academically by the High Middle Ages, but didn't care how regular people spoke.