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I know this is a old language, but i was wondering because i was going to take a latin speaking class, and i just wanted to know in what places can you even use it at.
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The only place Latin is really spoken, as if a living language, is the Vatican. Even there, it’s not common anymore.
However, Latin is the forerunner of all the Romance languages, so gives a strong foundation in what many languages have in common; and there are many Latin phrases still in use today. E.g. … well, there’s one right there. "e.g." stands for "exampli gratia" — Latin for, "for the sake of example". Math and logic classes will teach you to finish proofs with "Q.E.D"… "Quod Erat Demonstrandum" (or, "that which was to be demonstrated". Law is liberally sprinkled with Latin. Writ of habeus corpus, anyone?
it is a dead language
I don’t think anybody speaks it as a first language anymore.
its a dead language.
it is no country’s official language.
its only like individual people that know it. not whole countries.
its rare for someone to be able to speak full latin.
nobody speaks it as there base language anymore…
vatican city
It is a dead language…meaning no one actually converses in it in real life.
It would still be fun to learn though.
we use latin
latin roots like uni wich means one our language is made of latin roots
It’s still used some in Vatican City, though it’s a bit different from Classical Latin.
probably the only place where you could walk around and bump into people who use it is vatican city, which is considered it’s own country.
The Latin you will be using hasn’t been used since the days of the Roman Empire, like around the time Jesus lived.
However many modern languages are derived from latin, Something like half of the words in the English language are derived from latin-based langauges (French,Italian,Spanish).
Latin at one time was like the one you will be studying but then it became corrupted and changed over time into dialects over the decades and centuries until the various different forms of corrupted latin became languages in their own right. Several languages derived from dialects of corrupted latin are Italian, Spanish, French, Portugese and Romanian. I just mentioned them remember.
Inturn English has taken about half of its vocab from those Romance languages and thus might find that you recognize a bunch of words that you will be studying in latin class.
It’s an official language of the Vatican, but even there you get along better in Italian.
Classical Latin is no longer spoken in everyday life anywhere, but Ecclesiastical Latin (which is basically Classical Latin with different pronunciations; for instance, in Classical Latin, "v"s are pronounced as "w"s) is still spoken in Vatican City, which is technically a country. Also, it is debateable whether it is a dead language, since it is still spoken in the Vatican, and since new Latin words are still being formed (I learned today that the Latin word for aircraft carrier is aeroplanigera, if I understand correctly.) However, I still highly recommend studying Latin. I have found that it has given me more insight into where English words come from, and that I am better with grammar (I now understand when to use "whom.")
Vatican City.
Other than that, nowhere.
You can speak Latin in the USA – tehre are groups that meet to speak Latin. Also in London, and other cities worldwide.
If you are interested in spoken Latin, the you’ll find this site very interesting:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
Then, there is schola, a social networking site, all in Latin, with around 500 members
http://schola.ning.com
Although there are only a few hundred fluent speakers, Latin is not by any means extinct.
I don’t know… ASK ALONSO BRITO!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xd05QHfuK4