Foedus Latinum - The Death of a Language?
In 2003, Michael Thomas Connaghton published a short thesis on the use of Latin in the Vatican State – in the hope of demonstrating that Latin was still alive. Instead, his thesis outlined the last gasp of Latin as a spoken language – across the Vatican, Latin as a language of daily intercourse is now in effect confined to a single room – the so-called “Office of Letters”............
