English Dictionary

ghost language

名詞

A language which has lost its speakers. / A language posited against actual evidence, a merely fancied natural language.

日本語の意味

話者を失った言語、すなわち死語。 / 実際の証拠に基づかず、仮想的な自然言語として想定された言語。

The villagers whispered about the old ghost language, a tongue remembered only in songs and carvings.

村人たちは、歌や彫刻にしか残っていない、話者を失った古い言語についてささやき合った。

意味（1）

A language which has lost its speakers.

Of the 250 or so Aboriginal languages once spoken in Australia, two-thirds are extinct or moribund. Coastal languages were usually the first to go, with settlement patterns matching patterns of extinction. In Western Australia, the former of approximately 110 Aboriginal languages, 45 were presumed extinct, and another 30 were on the verge of extinction. Wajuk, the original language of Perth, was dead. Nyungar, the language of the southwestern tip of the continent, was gone. Mirning, the language of Eucla, had disappeared with barely a trace. Witjaari, once spoken north of Wajuk, was now a ghost language. And the list went on. I had come to a land of linguistic devastation.

意味（2）

A language posited against actual evidence, a merely fancied natural language.

ghost languages （ plural ）