Ecclesiastical Latin

Lingula Latīna

Information - Informationes

Family: Borean, Eurasiatic, Nostratic, Indo-European, Italo-Celtic, Italic, Latin

Region: Worldwide

Ethnicity: others

Speakers: 70 M (briefly), 0 (first to tertiary speakers)

Writing System: Latin Alphabet

Language Status: Extinct (UNESCO)

Ecclesiastical Latin is an extinct language according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.

Ecclesiastical Latin also called Church Latin, Liturgical Latin or Italianate Latin, is a form of Latin initially developed to discuss Christian thought and later used as a lingua franca by the Medieval and Early Modern upper class of Europe. It includes words from Vulgar Latin and Classical Latin (as well as Greek and Hebrew) re-purposed with Christian meaning. It is less stylized and rigid in form than Classical Latin, sharing vocabulary, forms, and syntax, while at the same time incorporating informal elements which had always been with the language but which were excluded by the literary authors of classical Latin, it was introduced in Worldcraft: My Last Blessings.


Pronunciations - Pronunciationes

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Words - Verba

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Examples - Exempla


Courtship

Example Text - Exemplum Text

Commentarii de Bello Gallico, also called De Bello Gallico (The Gallic War / Digmaan Makapranses), written by Gaius Julius Caesar.



Users - Useres