Should we revive Latin?

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

Sanskrit is spoken liturgically by some Brahmin sects. Doesn't mean it isn't extinct. When was that the last Native, monolingual Latin speaker last lived?

[HungAryan]

Sanskrit is spoken liturgically by some Brahmin sects. Doesn't mean it isn't extinct. When was that the last Native, monolingual Latin speaker last lived?

Sanskrit actually has about 30 000 Native Speakers.
Sure, Latin doesn't have any native speaker alive today, but it was kept alive by the Church and Renaissance Humanists, and it is the official language of the Vatican even to this day.

[Sylvanus]

Dead languages should stay dead. Have you heard/understand some hebrew?

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[Unurautare]

Italian is closer to Ancient Latin than Romanian.
Sardinian and Sicilian (local dialects of Southern Italian) are the closest to Latin.

Thus, we all know what Latin actually sounds like, so it won't sound garbage.
We can just use Italian pronunciation, and it will sound nice...

Latin -us
Romanian(also Sardinian) -u
Italian -o

[HungAryan]

Latin -us
Romanian(also Sardinian) -u
Italian -o

Sicilian and Sardinian -u

Also, Romanian has a lot of Slavic loanwords.

[Unurautare]

Sicilian and Sardinian -u

Also, Romanian has a lot of Slavic loanwords.

Hungarian has maybe 3 times or more Slavic loanwords than Romanian,and we have them from the Orthodox church,while you were suppose to be Latinized by the Catholic church. We can always make it 100% Latin if that butthurts you in any way,I think Romanian is OK as it is,we don't fake words just because of wannabe pure Latin,we also have loans from Hungarian and Turkish(Turkish foods like sarmale and ciorbă and various trade items). I'd imagine Italian should normally(historically) have German and maybe even Arabic influences but they just chose to standardize a fancy local dialect for the entire country.

[Bozkurt_Karabash]

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She just has a nice voice, language is horrible. ISraeli Hebrew sounds nothing like ancient hebrew. It's basically semitized calques of Yiddish which is almost German.

[HungAryan]

She just has a nice voice, language is horrible. ISraeli Hebrew sounds nothing like ancient hebrew. It's basically semitized calques of Yiddish which is almost German.

That still doesn't guarantee that Revived Latin would be "Latinized calques of Italian"

[HungAryan]

Here, examples of Latin spoken...

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Does it sound horrible?

[Arrow Cross]

Italian is closer to Ancient Latin than Romanian.
Sardinian and Sicilian (local dialects of Southern Italian) are the closest to Latin.

Thus, we all know what Latin actually sounds like, so it won't sound garbage.
We can just use Italian pronunciation, and it will sound nice...

Original Latin pronunciation is pretty much known, and it sounded nothing like what we - or anyone else - are used to. Bunch of Grecophiles they were, Kaisar, Kikero and the rest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_r..._pronunciation