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ELI5: One of the most spoken languages of the past, now an abandoned one; how did the Latin language "die?"
gpt
Didn’t die.  With the fall of the Roman Empire, and the isolation of the “dark ages”/late antiquity, the local “common” Latin (aka: vulgate) morphed and evolved into the various Romance languages.  Italian, Spanish, Romanian, Portuguese, French, Catalan... these are all Latin today.