tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post2327886467547835626..comments2024-03-14T10:31:26.918+00:00Comments on DCblog: On living LatinDChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10192779827863835310noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-44881682099035739252009-09-02T11:29:54.681+00:002009-09-02T11:29:54.681+00:00and there is the YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company...and there is the YLE (Finnish Broadcasting Company) Nuntii Latini broadcast weekly.<br /><br />http://www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii/<br /><br />Interesting to hear Latin in a Finnish accent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-57605452828779321512009-08-28T16:25:41.205+00:002009-08-28T16:25:41.205+00:00For most of European History educated people were ...For most of European History educated people were diglott in their vernacular, and Latin. The education system, set up across the Roman Empire, remained in Latin until the mid 1700's. University lectures across Europe were in Latin, facilitating academic exchange. In some areas with minority languages, Latin held sway until the mid 1800's. In areas such as mathematics and biology, texts and monographs were still being published in Latin, until the early 1900's in some cases.<br /> Although people were not learning Latin literally at their mother's knee, there has been an unbroken chain of Latin speakers, from Roman times, to the present, who have transmitted the language. There still remain speakers, and as Danny points out, there are now resources available to help people become speakers, such as the Latinum course, or the Schola Latina Universalis. Latin has been coining new words all the way along - it did so in Mediaeval times, and during the Renaissance. The bulk of european literature was written in Latin - this is largely invisible to us now, as these works remain untranslated. For example, one of the greatest English poets who ever lived, Buchanan, wrote his corpus in Latin. Modern users of the language are also involved in generating new vocabulary. You can find an online community of users of Latin at http://schola.ning.com where there is an active chatroom.<br />It is only in comparatively recent times that Latin has experienced a dramatic drop in speaker numbers. The rise of the Nation State, and the focus on National languages, spelled the death of Latin as a stateless international language. However, Latin did not die - it was a conceit of the French, trying to displace Latin, that lead to that conceit.The Bent Branchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16281010373396592381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-64112172813999083892009-08-18T15:50:06.296+00:002009-08-18T15:50:06.296+00:00There is site encouraging users to create their ow...There is site encouraging users to create their own social groups of Latin speakers, some that meet regularly: http://foeduslatinum0006.ning.com/ This is the initiative of Evan Millner, one of the creators of the Latinum podcast course (http://latinum.mypodcast.com/) who is hoping to see an increase in Latin speakers - he suggested that there are about 100 fluent Latin speakers in the world today.Danny Vincenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10325501552669643593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-56441230232247584292009-08-17T13:34:25.769+00:002009-08-17T13:34:25.769+00:00It's interesting (for me at least) to compare ...It's interesting (for me at least) to compare the situations of Latin and Esperanto. <br /><br />You write, "The 'most alive' languages have native speakers and transmit from parent to child between generations." Esperanto has a small number of native speakers (I know one in Cardiff!), but most people who speak the language have opted in to the speech community voluntarily. The same, I think, is true of Cornish and Manx. <br /><br />I would certainly count Esperanto as 'alive' in that it produces "new vocabulary, in particular, to express present-day notions, and new variant forms...".Bill Chapmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12810992711601197508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8377709913595182916.post-27105080336356420372009-08-12T23:54:41.184+00:002009-08-12T23:54:41.184+00:00There's also the Latin Wikipedia -- or Vicipae...There's also the Latin Wikipedia -- or Vicipaedia:<br /><br />http://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagina_primavphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16647609487352038948noreply@blogger.com