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Latin is a "dead" language. Latin is not spoken in any nation. Latin was the language of ancient Rome, and at the height of the Roman Empire, it was the lingua franca for a large part of the civilized world. It persisted as the language of scholars through the middle ages, and lives on today in the forms of the various romance languages which all derived from Latin (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.) It also endures in many scientific nomenclatures, and is the language of the Catholic church's scriptures.

Source: stuff I learned a long time ago.

2006-06-18 14:23:38 · answer #1 · answered by Bender 6 · 16 0

Latin Speaking Countries

2016-10-06 07:10:20 · answer #2 · answered by wyss 3 · 0 0

What Country Speaks Latin

2016-12-12 17:28:39 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I do not believe latin is still a viable language since Rome fell.

However there has been found pockets of communities that were shut off from communication by land conditions that still speak a form of latin dialect.

I do not remember the area, but it is a location or locations in Switzwerland. Even the proper name for the Swiss is not something swiss languagey, it is roman latin. Helvitzia.

That was the present day information as far as which countries spoke latin, umm well. The Empire of Rome. All citizens under the empirical authority was required to learn latin if they didn't already know it. However since the fall of Rome, the latin language has evolved and the evolved languages are refered to as romantic languages (not romantic like love, romantic like rome) French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian,. I'm sure there are others I am leaving out. Even English was heavily influenced by latins remnants, mostly because of trade and war with France.

Also the scientific community utilizes latin as specific classifications. Whereas the medical community utilizes Greek forms of words.

2006-06-18 14:17:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4 0

Latin was the language of the Roman Empire, and ended up being used almost everywhere the Roman Empire spread. So for several centuries, Latin was at least known to most Europeans with a decent education. It was the language of the clergy for centuries, and there are some Catholic churches today which do some Masses in Latin.

Latin is a tricky language to learn, but it's worth it: knowing Latin can really improve your English skills, believe it or not.

2006-06-18 14:22:11 · answer #5 · answered by Raphael94 2 · 2 0

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In which country do they speak Latin ?? Or if no one speaks it now which country did ??

2015-08-06 12:56:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Latin is the official language of The Holy See.
As a consequence, it also is the official language of Vatican City.

The Holy See is a sovereign nation, that has no territory.

Latin evolved into Italian, and heavily influenced the other Romance languages.

2006-06-18 14:33:00 · answer #7 · answered by jblake80856 3 · 0 1

Latin is a "dead language" which is not spoken (although in the Vatican most priests are fluent in reading and writing Latin).It was not just a country who spoke it, a whole empire did it, the Roman empire, from the Latium to Britannia, from Hispania to Dacia.Later on, the Latin spoken trough the empire gave place to other languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Dalmatian, Romanian, etc.

2006-06-24 14:15:42 · answer #8 · answered by Louise Marandel 1 · 0 2

Latin is a dead language. It would probably still be used in the Vatican for some purposes.

2016-04-02 13:04:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Rome spoke it.
So pretty much all from England to Turkey spoke it, at one time.
No countries speak it now.

2006-06-18 14:16:57 · answer #10 · answered by DoloresHaze 2 · 0 0

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