English Explanatory Dictionary

ghost language

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

A language which has lost its speakers.
A posited natural language which does not actually exist.

Word forms

ghost language ghost languages

Etymology

By analogy to ghost town.

Synonyms

dead language extinct language spurious language

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