Isn Latin a dead language?
Not at all. Latin has been spoken continuously for over 2,500 years and is now the first language of millions of people all over the world – whether we call it French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese or Romanian. Languages inevitably change over the course of time, but just as modern Greek is clearly recognisable as the same language as Classical Greek, the present-day forms of Latin are not so different from the classical language (especially Romanian!). Latin is still spoken in the Vatican, and there are many places where Latin is used in a modern context – such as the Nuntii Latini news pages (now available as podcasts)!
