OK. Well Phil, you guessed that Djinang was another living Aboriginal language, which was… the correct answer!

嗯。好的，菲尔，你猜Djinang是另一种现存的土著语言，那是正确答案！

A living language, like English, is a language that people still speak and use in their ordinary lives.

现用语言，如英语，是人们在日常生活中仍在说和使用的语言。

But language never sits still: the British variety itself went on changing after 1776, as all living languages must.

1776年后，英国的语言多样性本身也在不断变化，所有现存的语言都必须如此。

Traces of the very first stages in the development of numeration can be seen in several living languages today.

计数体系最初阶段的痕迹仍存在于当今的某些语言当中。

Meta notes that Hokkien is one of nearly 3,500 living languages that are mainly spoken and do not have a widely used writing system.

Meta指出，闽南语是现存的近3500种语言中的一种，这3500种语言主要是口语，并没有广泛使用的书写系统。

Devy said the PSLI will soon start work on a project to document about 6,000 living languages in the world.

Devy 说，PSLI 将很快开始一个项目，记录世界上大约 6,000 种现存的语言。

Changes like these happen because, unlike say, Latin, which no-one speaks day-to-day, English is a living language – a language people speak and use in their ordinary lives.

之所以会发生这样的变化是因为，不像没有人会日常使用的拉丁语，英语是一种现用语言——人们在日常生活中所说或所用的一种语言。

Maybe if we actually respect language for what it is -- literally, the greatest invention in the history of humankind -- then in the future, we can celebrate endangered languages as living languages, as opposed to museum pieces.

也许如果我们真的尊重语言的本质—— 从字面上看，这是人类历史上最伟大的发明——那么在未来， 我们可以把濒危语言当作活的语言来庆祝， 而不是博物馆的作品。

All living languages will continue to change, and the Thomas Elwoods of the world will eventually have to get with the program because hundreds of years later, it's considered right to use " you" when addressing another person.

所有现存的语言都将继续变化，世界上的托马斯·埃尔伍德最终将不得不接受这个项目， 因为数百年后， 在称呼另一个人时使用“你” 被认为是正确的。