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I don't know if this is the right place to ask but is there some sort of list of all the texts that we have preserved from a particular dead language? Like a list of everything that was ever written in Latin, everything that was ever written in Middle English and so on.
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>>9647090
Those would be very long lists.
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>>9647090
>Like a list of everything that was ever written in Latin
I thought you were asking about dead languages.
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>>9647112
Would they? The vast majority of texts written in those languages have been lost.
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>>9647117
Imagine if a small fraction of the English language was saved (out of texts, letters, excell files, pieces of notes, books, blurbs, comments, newspapers, graffiti, inscriptions) would that still not be voluminous? The same is for Latin or any other literate society with written language. Unless you want to read Plebius Maximus Aurelius' letter to his father in 255 AD then what scholars have narrowed to the cannon is enough.
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>>9647134
Just found this: http://latin.packhum.org/browse it is described as "This website contains essentially all Latin literary texts written before A.D. 200" and there's honestly not that much stuff in there. Since Latin is one of the better preserved dead languages I don't see why it couldn't be done with other ones.
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