Latin has a great influence on English. Altitude: How high is the sea level? Derivative: alta If you want to climb a mountain, you will be forced to climb at high altitude. Antique items: precious items for that age. Derivatives: Antique pots are one of the most expensive antiques in history. Benefit: A good thing about something good is that it is good for you. Derivatives: Bene drinking water has many advantages, one is that it can help you have healthy skin.
I will take Latin as an example. In the Roman Catholic Church it is still used as a word for rituals, technically thought to be dormant, but few people think Latin, except dead words. It was used for masses and clergy, but since there are no native speakers, the Latin is considered extinct widely. There are several levels of harm before the language is declared dead. Unfortunately, from extinction to extinction is a rapidly occurring language. The slope of the language death is steep, as it only costs generations to learn it locally. If the language is not studied by local children, it will last as long as that last mother tongue speaker.
Latin has become a dead language. It began to read the classical language in the book. In order to learn Latin grammatical rules, children began to enter the "grammar school" from the 16th century to the 18th century. Learning Latin has become 'spiritual gymnastics'. In the 18th century when modern languages began to take courses in European countries, the teaching methods of these languages were the same as Latin. Remember grammar rules. The written exercise is completed. These paragraphs are translated from the second language to the first language, and vice versa (ibid).