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”............
Did the Romans sing their poetry and declaim their orations with the tonal accents of the Greeks, or did they solemnly orate with rotund monotony? Evan Millner gives his two pence.
