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"text": "Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. \"As to dead languages,\" replied the ſchoolmafter, \"I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than—\" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, \"that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.\"",
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"word": "ölü dil"
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"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mḳvdari ena",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "მკვდარი ენა"
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "holt nyelv"
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{
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "bahasa mati"
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"roman": "shigo",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "死語"
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"code": "kn",
"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "sattabhāṣe",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ಸತ್ತಭಾಷೆ"
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"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "meteng amanu"
},
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"roman": "ölgen tıl",
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"word": "өлген тіл"
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ភាសាស្លាប់"
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},
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},
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},
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"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "patay na wika"
},
{
"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "vaḻakkiḻanta moḻi",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "வழக்கிழந்த மொழி"
},
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"word": "ölü dil"
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"text": "Supper being over, the lawyer took his leave, and the doctor began to ſound the learned clerk reſpecting his proficiency in the dead languages. \"As to dead languages,\" replied the ſchoolmafter, \"I was once a vaſt pretty ſcholar indeed, but want of exercise has made me main ſlack—I can't get over my ground as I uſed to do. Then as to the t'other dead fellow, I could never greek it at all, that's flat. And, Lord bleſs you! my Latin is of no more uſe to me here than—than—\" Here he ſtuck for want of a ſimile; when Mr. Le Dupe helped him out by ſaying, \"that it is to a young man at college, where it is conſidered a pedantic inſult, and an unpardonable bore, to utter a Latin ſentence.\"",
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"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ölü dil"
},
{
"code": "eu",
"lang": "Basque",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "hizkuntza hil"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "llengua morta"
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{
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"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "死語言"
},
{
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"roman": "sǐyǔyán",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "死语言"
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{
"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "死語"
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{
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"roman": "sǐyǔ",
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"word": "死语"
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{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "滅絕語言"
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"roman": "mièjué yǔyán",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "灭绝语言"
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
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{
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"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "mortinta lingvo"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "surnud keel"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "kuollut kieli"
},
{
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"word": "langue morte"
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{
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{
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"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "lingua morta"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "mḳvdari ena",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "მკვდარი ენა"
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{
"code": "de",
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "tote Sprache"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "holt nyelv"
},
{
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "bahasa mati"
},
{
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "死語"
},
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"lang": "Kannada",
"roman": "sattabhāṣe",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ಸತ್ತಭಾಷೆ"
},
{
"code": "pam",
"lang": "Kapampangan",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "meteng amanu"
},
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"roman": "ölgen tıl",
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"word": "өлген тіл"
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"code": "km",
"english": "pʰiesaa slap",
"lang": "Khmer",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ភាសាស្លាប់"
},
{
"code": "ko",
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"roman": "sa'eo",
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
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"word": "dødt språk"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "język wymarły"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "língua morta"
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{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "limbă moartă"
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "mjórtvyj jazýk",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
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"word": "utdött språk"
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{
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "patay na wika"
},
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"code": "ta",
"lang": "Tamil",
"roman": "vaḻakkiḻanta moḻi",
"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "வழக்கிழந்த மொழி"
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"sense": "language with no native speakers",
"word": "ölü dil"
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