Latin Revival
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I'm not sure if his is the place to put this, but how would you people feel If say Italy did something like Cornwall and revived and officially recognized Classical Latin, would it be plausible, would it be dumb? Pic kinda related
But why?
>>1181917
Why did Cornwall do it
>>1181903
Yes, it should be the official language of the EU and the Pope should support it. But then again the EU should be dissolved and this Pope hanged.
Italian has Dante, we can't go back
>>1181922
Because cornish was dead with no direct descendants.
Latin isn't.
>>1181903
Hard to do without any sort of cultural motivation. Successful language revival typically involves teaching a language that was driven (at least close) to extinction, like some indigenous American languages, or, as you said, Cornish. Latin merely evolved into other languages. It would be like trying to convince Americans to teach their children Old English as their native language, it wouldn't catch on.
Furthermore, Latin is already commonly learned, though not in childhood.
>>1183025
This is a good idea, should the European Union as the Unified European entity that it more or less is adopt Latin as an official language? More or ROme is the basis of Law for most of Europe and a source of Culture, and tongues for shy of 50% of the European Union
>>1181922
Nationalism and regional identity- same as Ireland. Which doesnt exist for latin.
