The Undead Language: Latin

I agree with David Crystal on his point on the status of a language subjectively based on usage. However, I believe that we must consider not the lives of the languages, but of their dialects, because, for the most part, the dialects are the ones who sprout and change from the language rather than the language itself. Therefore, I believe that Latin is not a dead language or a live language at all, but an undead. Furthermore, it is Latin's dialects that can be considered alive. For instance, Vulgar Latin (although not actually a dialect, but a folk version of the language) is extinct, and has been transformed into the latin-derived languages we know today. Vernacular languages, therefore, are the ones I consider to be the ones doing the transformation.