What country in europe speaks latin?

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murphywingedspur

Strictly speaking....its a dead language, though it is possibly spoken in The Vatican,and some Roman Catholic services. Also, doctors still use Latin when writing prescriptions.

SteveT

Vatican

E.G. Emeritus

The Vatican uses it as an official language, though not many speak it.

Interestingly, Radio Finland broadcasts the news in Latin. It's at

www.yleradio1.fi/nuntii

smiling through the tears

There are no countries in Europe that speak Latin as a native language. Latin is now only a language that is studied for scholarly purposes, unfortunately. Latin is a very good language to learn because it is the basis of many languages such as Italian, Spanish, and French, and many others, and if you have a grasp of Latin then you can mostly understand these languages even if you haven't been taught them. Also, Latin is extremely helpful if you are a doctor or a scientist in general.

Latin originated in ancient Rome, but gradually, after the fall of the Roman Empire, the only people who spoke Latin were the Roman Catholic Church, who, although they kept some of the basic principles of the original Latin, conformed it to their own purposes so much that it is almost a different language than that of its original form. It is most certainly a different dialect, and much of the original vocabulary was lost because it was deemed too vulgar. What is generally taught in schools today is Classical Latin, a.k.a. the colloquial Latin of the upper-class Roman people (and if you get a good teacher, the lower-class, too ;-P).

If you really want to get technical about a country that speaks Latin, then the Vatican would be my selection, but they only use it for the purposes of the clergy and do not speak it in conversation.

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Vatican city/the holy see. is the only nation left in the world that speaks latin.

Realname: Robert Siikiniemi

Some Gypsies in Romania speak a language very close to the old Latin language.

ficie

Latin is the official language of the Vatican. I've heard from different sources that in the Vatican the ATMs are in Latin (!). I supposed there Latin is also used for daily communication (since the members of the Church often have different origins, and wouldn't necessarily speak another common language). I'm not sure, though.
If you are interested, my high school teacher of Latin had pen-friends (professors themselves), and they would write each other in Latin. To each their way of having fun, I suppose...

agooddub

none

stickadiddle

I would also think that the Vatican population will speak the most Latin.
I once met a man who bragged to me that he could speak fluent Latin, to which I replied;
"Really! who to!"

theblueguide

Latin is the official language of the Holy See. The working languages of the Vatican are French and Italian, mostly. Only a bout 15 people in the Vatican can actually converse fluently in Latin.
More non-Catholics are fluent in Latin than catholics, mainly in trhe academic community.
There is a free online course for conversational Classical latin, here:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

IÂ´m Alexander the Fyromian!!!

France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Romania talk latin languages with same origin

Orla C

It's a dead language .... but the derivatives are Portuguese, Spanish (with Arabic influences), French (with Germanic influences), Italian and I think Croatian also?

People study it or read it, but as a language it isn't used like English is.

old know all

Italian and Catalan are Latin dialects. No-one speaks classical Latin any more. 15th century Latin is used by the Vatican for official purposes, but it's nobody's first language. I've heard that there are parts of Romania where the local dialect is very similar to classical Latin, but that may be an urban myth.

tantum populus meus aevum narro latin

boohoo_Jebus

None. It's a dead language.

ageingcynic

There is a language called Ladin which is a dialect of Italian, spoken in the north of Italy. It is not the same as Latin though.

Buddha

No-one actually speaks Latin but the root of most of our language is Latin and Greek.

Peter R

None, to my knowledge. But Italian, French, much of English, Spanish, Portuguese and Romanian are rooted in Latin.

Mark C

Latin is a dead language but it used to be spoken all over Europe

knitknackers

nowhere as a language, but latin is still used in some roman catholic churches in spain

waltzing matilda

Even the vatican have rationalised their use of latin as they discovered more people were prepared to sit through mass as a result

lvgeno

Latin is considered a dead language. By that it means that it is not spoken as a conversational language. It is the basis of many languages. There is no country anywhere that use it as an everyday language.

Someone! :)

None :) But the most Ancient Language in Europe,and world,is Greek from Greece. :)

~ Luci ~

latin is a dead language it's origin of most words but no one speaks it anymore ... we take it in skool tho

Polly!

no one 'speaks' latin anymore. It is more studied or read.
xxx

bails

Nowhere. Latin is a dead language and is probably only used within the RC church.

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