I've heard stories of immigrants who speak to their child in their former nation's language, while letting the child learn the language of the country by, well, growing up in that country!
Theoretically, could a parent opt to communicate with their child in latin exclusively, thereby raising a child who speaks a dead language from "birth," so to speak.
I imagine the objection would be maintenance, as the parents would likely stop speaking latin with the child as it nears adulthood, but I have a solution. If you raised the child as a traditional catholic (very specifically) so their masses, which are a high frequency event held in latin, could serve as a bit of that community and just hearing the language would be of high value in maintaining it.
So the kid has spoken latin with the parents from birth to the teen years, then it hears latin weekly at an event that is several hours long. Theoretically, I imagine this would be enough to raise, likely, the only nativeborn latin speaker on earth.
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