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Friday, Feb 09, 2007

Foedus Latinum - The Death of a Language?

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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”............

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