Is Latin Really A Dead Language?

Is Latin really a dead language? What even determines whether a language is dead or not? In this episode of Babbel Explains, we explore how Latin is still very much alive in many languages and various professional fields. So carpe diem ("seize the day") and check out this video!

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[BabbelUSA]

What's your favorite Latin phrase?

[ItalianByLatin]

A big pro for Latin is its very close proximity to Italian. As a Latin and Italian teacher, I often see that Latin students have great fun learning Italian, where Latin comes “to life”. For me, Italian is “only” a successful upgrade of Latin, Latin 2.0 so to speak. I'll show that on my channel!
Thank you for the interesting video👍🙂

[almightyandz]

Keep posting bro I can see your channel getting a million subs

[aexndr]

How dare you pronounce v like that! In Latin, a V makes the English W sound...

[carlnikolov]

Dont forget ex-it (out + he/she/it goes)
Or important eum + portant (they carry him because he is.... Well... important)
Latin is fascinating.
Ab-sunt (they are away)

[maritza]

A lot of scientists, linguists, archaeologists, historians etc. are considering that 8, 500 years ago, Romania was the heart of the old European civilization. The new archaeological discoveries from Tartaria, (Romania), showed up written plates older than the Sumerian ones. More and more researches and studies converged to the conclusion that the Europeans are originated in a single place, the lower Danube basin. Down there, at Schela and Cladova in Romania have been discovered proves of the first European agricultural activities which appear to be even older than 10, 000 years.

Out of 60 scientifically works which are covering this domain, 30 of them localize the primitive origins of the man-kind in Europe, where 24 of them are localizing this origin in the actual Romania, (Carpathian- Danubian area); 10 are indicating western Siberia, 5 Jutland and/or actual Germany room, 4 for Russia, 4 for some Asian territories, 1 for actual France area and all these recognisied despite against the huge pride of those nations.

Jean Carpantier, Guido Manselli, Marco Merlini, Gordon Childe, Marija Gimbutas, Yannick Rialland, M. Riehmschneider, Louis de la Valle Poussin, Olaf Hoekman, John Mandis, William Schiller, Raymond Dart, Lucian Cuesdean, Sbierea, A. Deac, George Denis, Mattie M.E., N. Densuseanu, B.P. Hajdeu, P Bosch, W. Kocka, Vladimir Gheorghiev, H. Henchen, B.V. Gornung, V Melinger, E. Michelet, A. Mozinski, W. Porzig, A. Sahmanov, Hugo Schmidt, W. Tomaschek, F.N. Tretiacov are among the huge number of specialists which consider Romania the place of otehr Europeans origines and Romanian the oldest language in Europe, older even than Sanskrit.

According to the researchers and scientists, the Latin comes from the old Romanian (or Thracian) and not vice versa. The so called "slave" words are in fact pure Romanian words. The so called vulgar Latin is in fact old Romanian, or Thracian language, according to the same sources...

The arguments sustaining the theories from above are very numerous and I don't want to go into them so deeply as long as the forum is and has to remain one languages dedicated, to.

In the limits of the language, please allow me to present a list of just a few (out of thousands of words), which are very similar/ even identical in Romanian and Sanskrit:

Romanian

numerals : unu, doi, trei, patru, cinci, sase, sapte...100=suta

Sanskrit

numerals: unu, dvi, tri, ciatru, penci, sas, saptan...100 = satan

then Romanian Sanskrit

acasa acasha (at home)

acu acu (now)

lup lup ( wolf)

a iubi (considered slave) iub (love)

frate vrate (brother)

camera camera (room)

limba lamba (tongue)

nepot napat (neffew)

mandru mandra (proud)

lupta lupta (fight)

pandur pandur (infanterist)

nevasta navasti (wife)

prieten prietema (friend)

pranz prans (lunch time)

Ruman Ramana (Romanian)

saptamana saptnahan (week)

struguri strughuri (grapes)

vale vale (valley)

vadana vadana (widow)

a zambi dzambaiami (to smile)

umbra dumbra (shadow)

om om (man-kind)

dusman dusman (enemy)

a invata invati (to study)

a crapa crapaiami (to break something)

naiba naiba (evil)

apa apa (water) and not AQUA like in Latin. It looks like aqua came from apa and not the other way around...

and so on for more than thousand situations...
According to M. Gimbutas, the confusion Roman (Romanian as in original language) = Roman (ancient Rom citizen), is generated by the fact that Romans and Romanians have been the same nation, the same people. The Dacians/Thracians and Romans have been twins. The illiterate peasants called Romanians, Ruman and not Roman. Why do they call so? Because RU-MANI, RA-MANI, RO-MANI, API, APULI, DACI and MAN-DA, VAL-AH are all synonyms expressing the person from the river banc or from the river valley. APII could be found under the form of mez-APPI in the ancient Italy, under he same name as the APPULI Dacians. APU-GLIA, (or Glia Romanilor in Romanian - Romanian land) can be found with this meaning only in Romanian (Glia= land)
In the Southern side of Italian "booth" exists the first neolitical site of Italy and it is called MOL-feta. The name itself has Romanian names, according to Guido A. Manselli: MOL-tzam (popular Thank you), MUL-tumire (satisfaction), na-MOL (mud); MOL-dova (province and river in Romania, Za-MOL-xis, Dacian divinity. Manselli said that this archaeological sit is 7, 000 years old and has a balcanic feature.

[thomastittmann]

I luv your humorous presentation! Just shared it with family members. I added this preface:


My high school Latin is a little rusty. Bro Phillips was my first year Latin teacher. He was so old, we used to joke (outside of earshot), that he taught Julius Caesar to speak this Dead language).

They know my musical taste (I’m a young 76)…

Of course you know I went looking for "Grateful Dead and Latin"...
Top hits were about a band called "Latin Dead"...

But this was also among the unearthed remains:



Thanks for your creativity!

Now, if was can figure out how to make “unum” from “e pluribus”…or else we’ll have another Dark Ages…😢

[gotmemes]

I wanna try PIE= Proto Indo European from babble and spend all the money I have to learn

[jawher]

Bruh, you english accent is as hard to understand as your latin's.

[alexis-tmvd]

Eius sonus omnino mihi intulerandu'st, tamquam moechae cuiusdam edentulae quae poetari conetur.