What languages were used in The Passion of the Christ?
Just to follow on, yes the 2 languages are Latin and Aramaic, and they are both ‘dead’. This doesn’t mean that they’re not used today, just that they have stopped evolving, so there is no word in Latin for ‘computer’, but it is still used today, so not everyone will need the subtitles. The RC church still writes in Latin at the Vatican, and it is still spoken (although more rarely today than 30 years ago) in the Vatican corridors. As for the Romans speaking Latin… Latin was more commonly used as a written language, which is why it is so prevalent in many modern languages. When the Normans invaded Britain in 1066, they forced the natural language (English/Anglo-Saxon) out and had everyone speak French, but write Latin. If the speaking was formal – such as in court, in the police station, before a magistrate etc. then Latin was spoken. It wasn’t until the French reclaimed France from the Normans, thus seperating the Normans in Britain, that English as we know it today was born. The nob
