Which language, other than Hebrew, could be revived from a position with zero native speakers?

What about extinct Baltic languages like Old Prussian? Might need some significant PoDs to make an alt!Prussian identity distinct enough from the German one to want to revive the language, though.
 
Crimean Gothic is poorly attested, so you'd have to use Bible Gothic as your source (which is mostly backed up by other texts in Gothic) and for unattested words in it, you'd have to derive it from proto-Germanic. For modern concepts you could go the more "purist" route used by Anglo-Saxon enthusiasts and calque Icelandic words (or other Germanic words, but Icelandic is the most "pure" Germanic language), or more authentically borrow the needed words from Greek and Latin (just like Wulfila did with Christian concepts).

Problem is who would be speaking it aside from people like JRR Tolkien? Crimean Goths are long dead, and modern ethnic groups which could plausibly (by certain standards) claim Gothic descent (i.e. Catalans and most Spaniards) already have their own language and culture which has nothing to do with the Goths.

Admittingly, the idea came from a weird alternate history idea in which there are three German nations; a South Germany/Austria that would be Catholic and speak High German, a Northern Germany that would be Protestant and an East German that would speak some form of reconstructed Gothic with German and even being Eastern Orthodox.

Maybe the USSR could've used it to make East Germany more seperate from their neighbors or with the bit of Prussia they had? Was just an odd idea.
 
Agreed. Kind of makes me wonder why I did not ask one of 8 religious professors this question. And I lived in areas with 10% or so CoC and 50% or more evangelicals. Kind of makes me wonder why Biblical Greek was not taught in High School. I have regularly seen bibles with three columns of text. Hebrew, Greek, and English. Interesting concept of translating the New Testament back into ancient Hebrew. I guess it helps you learn the two languages.

The Muslims have flaws and weaknesses. One of the things they are right on is that you have to read it in the original text. And everyone should speak the original language. I know the fudge that is Modern Standard Arabic compared to Koran Arabic, but they do try and they do get a lot of benefits.

Probably because of how "westernized" Chiristinaity had become though when you consider Protestantism and so on, it could just be mroe that using the King James one was because of English pride or that it fit their cultural sensitivites better.
 
The Talmud is written in Aramaic (two dialects for Jerusalem and Babylonian), so while not a spoken language, written Aramaic is still quite active as interpretations, comments, etc about the Talmud and therefore precise language are ongoing every day. So, perhaps like Wesley, it is only "mostly dead, which means partly alive".
 
The Muslims have flaws and weaknesses. One of the things they are right on is that you have to read it in the original text. And everyone should speak the original language. I know the fudge that is Modern Standard Arabic compared to Koran Arabic, but they do try and they do get a lot of benefits.

Most of the Muslims in the world are not Arabic speakers though, so a translation can be helpful for them.
 
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