How did the latin language die out?

In a sense, it died because the Roman Empire got so big and fell apart. The Latin spoken in different parts of the Empire evolved in different directions and absorbed elements of the native languages spoken in those places. As the Empire disintegrated, communications among its various parts declined, a fact that hastened the breakdown into the Romance dialects. Of course Latin never really died except in the sense of being anyone's mother tongue. It continued to be read and written well into the Renaissance and is still the official language of the Vatican today.

It was spoken by the Romans. And it didn't die out, like others have said it evolved into several different languages. The Romance languages (romance here meaning "of the Romans", nothing to do with love) are French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Romanian (which makes sense -- Roman-ian) They're all fairly similar because of their Latinate roots. A lot of English words also have Latin influences but from religion in the 5th century AD, the Norman invasion of 1066 and the influence of the Renaissance, as opposed to the time that the Romans occupied Britain. Oh, and you'll also find a lot of Latinate vocabulary in Law.

It didn't die out so much as it morphed into other languages, specifically what we now know as the Romance languages. It's the natural progression of languages to change into something completely different; one need only look at how much English has changed in the past 1,000 years.

However, if I'm not mistaken, Latin was still being spoken in a small island off Italy up until the 1800s, at which point the inhabitants switched over to Italian. Pretty neat, if you ask me.

It didn't die out. It evolved to other languages, like italian, spanish, portuguese, french, rumanian.

It evolved into English, French, Spanish, Italian and other European languages.

Latin is dead language because Romans died.