Is it possible that the Latin language can be revived into Modern Latin just like Modern Hebrew?
I am just curious is it possible or could it happen that Latin can be revived into Modern Latin? just as Hebrew was th only dead language that was revived in Modern Hebrew and Modern Greek its just a thought and I know the official language of Italy today is Italian, I am aware of that and know that. I wish Latin was revived its just disappointing to see a pretty language like Latin to die out as a conversational or spoken language.
Brennus I think you are misunderstand my question I am not talking about Latino or Spanish Latin I am talking about the Byzantine Latin, you know the Latin language of the Holy Roman Empire that comes from Greek. I know it must be confusing nowadays because there are two types of Latin one that was used by the Roman Empire and the other that is called Latino referring to Spanish I am not talking about Spanish Latin. next time Brennus understand which Latin I am referring two I am talking about the Latin language referring to the Roman Empire
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i dunno.no ones done it yet
Hebrew was almost dead, fractured into different dialects, wheras Latin has been dead as doornails for centuries.
If there were an ethnicity that thought of Hebrew as their mother tongue, it could happen. But since there is no such group, and the only nation where Latin is official is the Vatican, I don’t see it happening. But I agree, it’s a shame to see such a wonderful language disappear.
That would be awesome! I guess I’m not the only one wondering about these things. I say it might be possible but it would take someone determined and fairly influential to make that happen. A following would be in order; there has to be a spark which gets a lot of people interested in studying the language. Sometimes I play around and say that Latin should be USA’s official language. I guess if someone really famous manages to grasp others’ interest, it might be on it’s way. Ooh, Modern Latin!
There have been several enlightened, though largely unsuccessful attempts by academics over the last century to develop a simplified Latin for international use.
One of these projects (constructed languages) is called "Latino Moderne":
http://www.langmaker.com/babel/latinmod.htm
Another is called "Interlingua" originally developed by an Italian mathematician, Giuseppe Peano, called "Latino Sine Flexione."
Please see link below:
http://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discurso_de_Gettysburg
A third constructed language which is a simplified Latin is "Neolatino." Unfortunately, I could not find anything on the Internet about it but there is an article about Neolatino in the September 1977 issue of "Quinto Lingo" magazine if you can find a library that carries it. Neolatino is a little more Classical Latin-like than Latino Moderne and Interlingua but seems to be more difficult to learn too. Its verb forms, while simpler than Latin, are still more complex than those of Latino Moderne and Interlingua.
If you want to learn conversational Classical latin, there is a complete course available here: thousands of students are using it since it came online 2 years ago
http://latinum.mypodcast.com
If you want to communicate in Latin, there is a facebook type site called Schola, that is entirely in Latin
http://schola.ning.com
Both schola and latinum are part of a deliberate revitalisation programme for Latin, modelled after the methods used for reviving the Miami language, and Hawaiian. There are also lots of places you can go for immersion in spoken Latin, and many large cities have Latin speaking groups (London, where I live, has two groups, thus two meetings a month, where people meet and chat in Classical Latin.)