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==Language revival==
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[[Language revival]] is the attempt to re-introduce an extinct language in everyday use by a new generation of native speakers. The optimistic [[neologism]] "[[sleeping beauty]] languages" has been used to express such a hope,<ref>See pp. 57 & 60 in [[Ghil'ad Zuckermann]]'s [http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/new-vision.pdf A New Vision for "Israeli Hebrew": Theoretical and Practical Implications of Analysing Israel's Main Language as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Hybrid Language], ''Journal of Modern Jewish Studies'' 5: 57–71 (2006). [http://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2014/september/1409493600/anna-goldsworthy/voices-land Dr Anna Goldsworthy on the Barngarla language reclamation], ''[[The Monthly]]'', September 2014</ref> though scholars usually refer to such languages as dormant.

In practice, this has only happened on a large scale successfully once: the [[revival of the Hebrew language]].  [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] had survived for millennia since the [[Babylonian exile]] as a liturgical language, but not as a [[vernacular language]].  The revival of Hebrew has been largely successful due to extraordinarily favourable conditions, notably the creation of a nation state (modern Israel in 1948) in which it became the official language, as well as [[Eliezer Ben-Yehuda]]'s extreme dedication to the revival of the language, by creating new words for the modern terms Hebrew lacked.

Revival attempts for minor extinct languages with no status as a liturgical language typically have more modest results. The [[Cornish language revival]] has proven at least partially successful: after a century of effort there are 3,500 claimed native speakers, enough for UNESCO to change its classification from "extinct" to  "critically endangered".  A [[Livonian language revival]] movement to promote the use of the [[Livonian language]] has managed to train a few hundred people to have some knowledge of it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.livones.net/valoda/?raksts=8701|title=Lībiešu valodas situācija |first=Valts|last=Ernštreits |website=Livones.net|date=14 December 2011|language=lv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202235047/http://www.livones.net/valoda/?raksts=8701 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>