Why are all scientific names for plants and animals in Latin?
Latin is a dead language so their won’t be any change.
For example:
There are a dozen different common names for the ‘cat’. If one person calls it a Katt and another person calls it a billi, how do they know that the other person is talking about the same animal? To avoid confusion, they use a dead language to make it very clear and universal that “Felis catus is the scientific name for cat and is universally known to everyone.
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