Latin Speaking Countries?

**MitaDC** · February 6th, 2005, 10:53 PM

Hey guys, I need to know which countries, if any speak latin. I am not very well educated on the subject but I dont' think the latin I am talking about is Latino or Spanish or whatever. Thanks

**Blazer06** · February 6th, 2005, 10:54 PM

I thought latin was dead, and only used for historical references (like old documents, etc.)
?

-Blaze

**Siliconjunkie** · February 6th, 2005, 10:56 PM

I think the only place it is in wide use is the Catholic Church.

**MitaDC** · February 6th, 2005, 10:59 PM

kk, starting a new company with my gf's dad called CCE technologies and we are trying to think of a logo so I didn't know if anybody still spoke it...

**Thud** · February 6th, 2005, 10:59 PM

Originally Posted by Siliconjunkie

I think the only place it is in wide use is the Catholic Church.

So to answer your question: The Vatican.

**Siliconjunkie** · February 7th, 2005, 12:16 AM

Plenty of people speak it. Go find some Catholic HS students. Most still have a Latin club.

**no1_vern** · February 7th, 2005, 12:39 AM

The Vatican city is considered a country in and of itself.

Ecclesiastical Latin remains the formal language of the Roman Catholic Church to this day, which makes it the official national language of the Vatican.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin

And NO to your second question, latin is not Latino nor is "latino" derived(except for a few words) from latin.

**Siliconjunkie** · February 7th, 2005, 12:59 AM

Not sure on your statement about Spanish/Latino not derived from Latin. I think that all the romance languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian) have their roots in Latin. Off to google.

**Siliconjunkie** · February 7th, 2005, 01:02 AM

I was half there

The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. Latin itself is considered an Italic but not a Romance language.

I swear I remember them all being rooted in latin, but it has been a long time since Spanish class.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

**Toniene** · January 18th, 2012, 11:45 PM

Today the six most widely spoken standardized Romance languages (sometimes referred to as Romanic languages, Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages) are Spanish (c. 329 million native), Portuguese (c. 236 million native), French (c. 68 million native), Italian (c. 62 million native), Romanian (c. 23 million native), and Catalan (c. 12 million native).

I speak Romanian myself and can understand 80% of old Latin texts

**ShyguyXPC** · January 19th, 2012, 02:38 AM

wow, dredge up a post that was already answered 7 years ago...

Just to reply once on this forum, no other threads, and then disappear into the internet mist never to be seen again.