LatinHolly Werning

Origin & Changes Over Time• Was the language of the Roman Empire• Roman Catholic liturgy

• Now only spoken as a second language• Spoken in Vatican City & the Italian peninsula• No native speakers• Genetic classification would be Indo-European• Official language of Vatican City• Regulated by the Roman Catholic Church• Influenced almost all western languages

Source & Destination• The Roman Empire used it first and widely spread over Europe• After Roman started having problems and basically concaved,

the Roman Catholic Church and Southern Europe higher ups used the language as a power/political move

• Vatican City is the main area that uses it because of the history of the Catholic Church

Timeline

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Results/Consequenses• Vatican City is mainly the only area that uses Latin because of

it’s Roman Catholic Church history. It makes sense because back in the day no one knew Latin in that area but the church spoke their whole service in Latin so no one could understand which resulted in in the selling of indulgences and other scams that would make the church money. Now days, I am sure they still have services in Latin but it is not as a power or political move. Vatican City is kind of their own country, but kind of not. It is a weird situation.

Two Current Events• http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/making-the-grade-latin

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• A teacher is engaging his students to learn more about the Latin language

• I couldn’t find another article because they were all about Latin America