The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
28. Is Latin Really Dead?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Third Edition - Caroline Myrick
Frank Morris [+]
College of Charleston
Frank Morris earned a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and taught Latin and Greek at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC from 1978 until his retirement in 2010. He continues to serve as Director of the Charleston Latin Program, and has been training teachers to teach Latin in elementary schools since the mid-1980s.
Description
While most believe that Latin is a dead language vital only for philologists and specialized historians and archaeologists, Latin is alive and at work in many and interesting ways in the modern world. This chapter addresses its many functions.