Latin: A Dead Language?

[coldironhands1]

ILLUMINATTTUSS!!!!!!!

[ShikiOujiChan]

I wonder why did scientific terminology base their language in latin, it is not the universal language that will favor everyone, other's like asian, to german, to native are not included or related to latin. Maybe scientist wanted christian acceptance in their work or something, but it just bothers me that this language died. The only reason why this language is still alive because the 12 official languages supported and improved from Latin

[ditzyKnight007]

+1 for looking at your watch at tempus fugit xD

[BigDogJang0]

Fuck yes, I'm learning Latin from from Rasputin.

[nomeinvisivel]

Why didn't you mention Romanian and Portuguese ?????

[heatherdaydream]

the captions are great but alas, the delivery and camera shot make this almost unbearable to watch

[afofa375]

Why does everyone speaks about italian, french, or spanish and not about romanian portuguese or catalan?

[001720BC]

@afofa375 Simple. Because those countries suck.

[afofa375]

@001720BC so where do you think they speak catalan? is that a country??? dumbass next time try to inform you before posting

[001720BC]

@afofa375 First, try making correct English sentences. Catalan is spanish. Now, fuck off you faggot.

[afofa375]

@001720BC are you really that dumb? you say catalan sucks but not spanish. Then you say catalan is spanish (which is right). So does catalan suck or not? I'd like to know how many languages you speak you twat. You certainly only speak english

[001720BC]

@afofa375 You misunderstood everything. Who's the idiot now ?

And for your information I speak four languages: french, dutch, german and english.

[2Swagtastic]

@afofa375 Both of you guys are wrong. Catalan is not at all Castellano(spanish), it's totally different, although mutually intelligible as it is with every other romance language.By the way look up Andorra, never heard of it I bet. It's a tiny country located between the borders of Spain and France in Western Europe in which Catalan is the official language.

[afofa375]

@2Swagtastic Yes you are right. Catalan is not exactly spanish but it's derivated from. And yes i've heard of Andorra :) but do they speak both languages there as they have 2 sovereins (sorry for my english^^)

[furriadroxiaiu]

You wouldn't belive but the most conservative romance languge existing today is the sardinian language. Unaltered expressions directly from latin such as " poni mihi tres panes in bertula" or " columba mea in domo tua" , are in the common use of the sardinian language.



[PentruRasaAlba]

Thumbs down for not including Romanian.

From Wiki:

The origins of Romanian language, a Romance language, can be traced back to the Roman colonization of the region. The basic vocabulary is of Latin origin, although there are some substratum words that are assumed to be of Dacian origin. Of all the Romance languages, in some respects, Romanian is the most conservative language, having retained, for example, the inflected structure of Latin grammar.

[MrJonathanStag]

CALL ME MAMA HEE HEE HOO AT LEAST IT WASN'T ME THAT FLEED A TSUNAMI!

[silversnow2008]

I am learning Latin to be able to go to Latin Mass, participate and understand what the priest is saying. (just sharing, no need for bad comments)

[DevinRickard]

@silversnow2008 (This is a bad comment!)

[kevinjjfr]

@silversnow2008 i been working on that, but i put it off to read the Catechism and the bible!

[BuzziMuzzi]

Well, my reason for learning Latin is because I love things as History and Social Science. If I want to understand more the past languages and symbolism it's really a good idea to study Latin.

[bramletyabercrombie]

ACTUALLY french spanish and italian are all derived more from vulgar latin. learning classical latin is a waste of time, Go learn spanish, italian and french, and THEN learn classical latin.

[CminorMaxG]

Oh, expectetis mihí! "mihí loquarí crédó". Hunc semper erró similis illó!

[CminorMaxG]

Superbus Latinám linguám secundám vocáre. Ob illám, mihí loquarí linguám usque quáque, cótidié. Dicam, Latina certé vivat, nunc semperque!

[legimenes]

o linguam optimam lingarum!

[Phalanx3800]

There really is no practical reason to learn Latin unless your academic field is in linguistics, tbh.

Dead languages are meant for archaeologists or historians or whatever. Or if you just want to be pretentious.

[MrJahka]

@Phalanx3800

there is no real applicable reason to learn any other language other than English. Europeans can all speak English, and the Chinese are learning.

[Phalanx3800]

@MrJahka Most people in the world do not speak English, so that would be incorrect.

No one speaks latin as a first language so I would say unless your job or field of academics requires some knowledge of latin, why bother?

[MrJahka]

@Phalanx3800

I'm talking about that from the point of business being conducted. The educated Chinese and Indians all speak English. Though, knowing Hindi or Mandarin is useful. However, the idea that learning French is somehow more useful than Latin is absurd. Everyone in France knows English. Latin has purpose in the regard that learning History has purpose. Liberal education is something to learned for the sake of, not for technical reasons. Also, latin is needed for latin poems.

[Phalanx3800]

@MrJahka From a historical perspective, all it would take is for the United States the United Kingdom and other English speaking nations to go through a political or economic downslide and some other linguistic group could rise to just as much prominence.

I don't personally think English is the end all of human language. It goes in cycles. Just like Latin was the language to know during the Roman Empire, and other examples whose specifics escape me at this time.

[MrJahka]

@Phalanx3800

I understand that. But we're talking about current day (kinda like the reason you advocate not taking latin). Today, I can work at any international company and would most likely not need to know any language other than english.

[SomePinkGirl]

@MrJahka english english english. put your english inside your ass.

[MrJahka]

@SomePinkGirl

I'm sorry I offended you with a fact of the world?

[SomePinkGirl]

@MrJahka fact of your ass imagination instead. I speak italian and my children will and everyone in italy always will. and the same with the rest of the world to preserve culture. sorry but your usa is not the one who make decision for the world. :)

[MrJahka]

@SomePinkGirl

I want you to speak Italian, but if your kids want a job in the international business market the universal language as of right now is English. You can thank the British Empire and the post WWII dominance of the American dollar for that. The fact of the matter is that it is important for you to learn English. Learning Italian is just something to expand your horizon for a native English speaker not required like I imagine English is...

[SomePinkGirl]

@MrJahka well i know they won't lol xD

[eshrooms1]

@SomePinkGirl but you're speaking English very well on these posts to hate it so much..

[xotan]

It is surprising that the presenter should not know England did not exist in Roman times. The Britons' Celtic language is still spoken in Wales. There are traces of Latin in it - pont = bridge; ffenstr = window.

@agima,

Irish people do not accept the term British Isles as they are not British. Nor did the British Isles exist as such in Caesar's day.

[blueshifter]

in summation: IS latin dead?

[TheTrieutran]

@blueshifter yeah that's what I wanna ask too =)). But I think it's not dead since a lot of people around the world are still learning it, and the Vatican also uses it as an official language.

[redpaul79]

@blueshifter dead as dillinger

[bizarewigga]

when he says latin sometimes he do not say the t

[eendjekwak1]

ID EST BONA

[SchwarzAdler52]

Lol, the fact is that just in Italy you may hope to learn Latin properly... Abroad would be shit, beginning from the pronounce and the lack of historical roots... It would be like learning German in Madrid!

[EdwinMarc]

Actually 50% of everything you said derives from latin.

[poxoleman]

Latin FTW!!! =D

[XXLoveoneanother]

Why next year? Do it now!

[RatifiedCow]

IM TAKING LATIN NEXT YEAR

[HawkeHound]

What's the music at the beginning?

[RingxWorld]

I like the WoW music at the start lulz

[joshlazarus]

I speak 4 languages, English (obviously), Cree (my native american language), French, and Spanish. Italian and Latin are languages I am now learning. :)

[CRISNCHIPS12398]

Latin.....lol.

[FinallyBacktoBasics]

@Wossha Because English is the language of money.

[TwistedLemniscate]

first list of "works sited," that I've ever seen on a Youtube video, lol cheers

[krueger231]

Arte et Marte.

[anythingnew]

The Illuminati got rid of Latin so that only the top elites of the world will be able to communicate with each other in Latin.

[FinallyBacktoBasics]

Nothing will kill the English language.

[sweetninicO9]

@FinallyBacktoBasics Actually is dead killed by itself, 85% of the words "of" modern english came from Latin origin.

[PatriasCapitalismYPs]

@FinallyBacktoBasics Yes, a chinese nuke pibe.

[dasdasist]

@FinallyBacktoBasics english is already dead technically because old english is the true pure english, and also middle english, but then completely changed when latin words were used in it, actually latin is as dead as ppl think because of every other language has been hugely influenced by latin

[Zimmermanncn]

ich liebe latein.

[krueger231]

@Zimmermanncn ich auch

[alligrim]

I love Latin! It's alot easier then english and helps your vocab SO much without you even thinking about it. Highly, highly recomend it.

[SanguineBullet667]

epic beard is epic

[JohnTheHutDweller]

the english(anglo saxon jute) did not come to britan until 300 years after the roman empire fell. that is why there is no influence. the english were still germans in germany at the time the roman empire fell

[cellar76]

In Poland they still teach Latin at school :) It's amazing....

[LaTuaAnguria]

@cellar76 also here in Faroe Islands :D

[thephilchannel]

Latin is extinct in the same way dinosaurs are extinct - things evolve over time. Latin has evolved into many daughter languages (Italian, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Romanian, to name a few). Dinosaurs are still around in the form of birds.

[anythingnew]

@thephilchannel

Latin have sexy daughters?

[JamesBondinification]

i don't care.....i'm gonna master it !!

[Templarofsteel18]

Regret as HELL, that I didn’t study Latin instead of German when I was in school -_-

[pauh4578]

this helped me pick my classes for next year in high school

[EDog1o1]

lATINA EST murtuare non potest

[smokyMcDankmn]

best video on youtube about the Latin language

[trnjana]

Latin is not a dead language...Ask Serbs...

[HarnesX]

2:34 Because we are strong!

[3DGNumberOneFan]

Classical studies>>>>>>>Modern languages!!!!!

[DiNatalli]

Portuguese, Romanian, & Catalan are also Romance languages.

[elazar79]

Yava et Kataha

[elazar79]

latin vs greek???

[Skaldmatte]

@elazar79 definitely greek

[elazar79]

@halibelxXxsinan

LOL To You To!!!!!!!!!!!!

[halibelxXxsinan]

@elazar79 jep greek and balkanic languages ^^

[halibelxXxsinan]

@elazar79 okay a big proportion to latin is europe with italian and some other kinds of of these countries :-P

[animation508]

Lingua latine non est lingua mortua!

[00Denkou0Taka00]

@animation508 Bene!

[WiiForever302]

@animation508 latinitus est bonum linguam

[TheRobinator143]

@WiiForever302 Lol you actually made a mistake: it should be bonam :P

[WiiForever302]

@TheRobinator143 oooo yea my fault, why, because its feminine right?

[TheRobinator143]

@WiiForever302 Yep, it's feminine.All nouns of the first order ending in -a are feminine (except for agricola, poeta, nauta etc. which are jobs that are considered male.)

[Kostas7117]

ancient greek and latin = best language ever!!!!

[Leonhardst]

@Kostas7117

*languages

[anotsofamiliarface]

Holy fuck this guy is not the ideal spokesperson for Latin.

[petermanz12]

way not to add anything about the Catholic Church

[CM99501]

latin was the roman language

but latin was the base of all european languages French,German,Spainish,Italian­,etc

[kreiger]

@CM99501 It's not the base of all European languages, only those that are in the Romance group of languages.

[zalkarn]

Latina est verendus.

[AlexRmex]

Salve

[JeebusOhMy]

@AlexRmex

.....vale XD haha salve Quid agis?

[AlexRmex]

@JeebusOhMy bellisime :) quid agis?

[JeebusOhMy]

@AlexRmex

i believe thats how are you doing? my latin teacher always greets us that way

[AlexRmex]

@JeebusOhMy yea it is actually :)

[JeebusOhMy]

@AlexRmex

oh ok

[AwesomeFace59002]

Euge!!!!

[grema74]

si quis latine disci vellet ut Rasputiin fieret- fiat

tterribilis profers voces, pudeat te1

[Wooohooo0733]

Hey guys & girls :) i really love Latin but man it's hard to learn when i don't go at any school that can learn me latin so atm i just try to learn it for my self due webpages etc. how long have you guys been studieng before you learned to have a conversation or just felt that now i can speak/understand latin :)

[DieForSnacks]

@Wooohooo0733 I bought a book and learing the declensions and conjugations and words simple as. On many sites you can find/ask about what you're unsure about

[Wooohooo0733]

Hey i'm starting to learn latin but well it's kinda hard when i don't go at the gymnasium or any school that can theach me latin so i have to do it by myself. but how long have you guys studied and how long will there go before i can "understand and have a convesation" with other ppl who speak latin? :)

[TheRobinator143]

@Wooohooo0733 Uhm, you don't actually just 'speak' Latin. In my school, there are 6 years in which you can study Latin. I am in my 4th year now and we don't speak Latin, you just read and try to understand what great poets or writers like Plinius Maior, Caesar (de Bello Gallico), Ovidius etc. You try to analyse and understand their texts, not write texts yourself. If you study Latin in university however I think you learn how to form sentences yourself.

[CovenantOfLove]

It's also the language that all the real laws of america are written in...Helllooooo!!!!

[pepintheshort100]

I tried! It's so hard!!!!!

[OtacDomovine]

WoW song :D

[BLEACHFAN947]

i know spanish so this is shit easy i was born in colombia amo em lamtimo

[luvpinas123]

i can't believe you didn't mention the fact that The Vatican is the only state which still uses Latin as the official language. Latin ain't dead hust yet!

[BandofSorensons]

Latin is awesome because it enables you to read many great philosophers and theologians. However, I'm not sure it really helps you expand in your knowledge of either English or other Romance languages. The only way to learn those things is to study them in their individual screwy particulars. I think maybe the main reason you hear that Latin ought to be taught and learned is that the classics job market can be a real pain. Here's to more jobs that don't involve coffee and green aprons!

[drgigglesdoescocaine]

Wow music at the begiing lol

[emc1219]

tu sunt fatuus ancillam

[AgimA74]

When Ivlivs Caivs Caesar entered the British Isles, there where no Angles, nor Saxons (those were still dwelling somewhere in Sweden) on what nowadays we call England. The native languages were some celtic dialects. Most of the latin influence on Ango-Saxish (English) comes from the normans and not directly from latin itself.

English go home (to Sweden that is)! ;)

[domikolli]

Latin borrowed a great deal of vocabulary from Ancient Greek, classical Greek. Example: et cetera means "and other" in latin ,cetera in turn comes from the greek word "eteron" meaning other and from there the words hetero- found their way into English and so on. Many other Latin words are cognate with Greek

Just one example as that word is on this video

[EinsteinxtremeRoblox]

We don't know how the Latin language was actually pronounced, so everyone who learns it or tries to speak it today has a very bad accent. It is useless! The real Latin was lost during the Dark Ages, when the monks(the only educated people) were more focused on keeping alive religion and spreading it than keeping a language alive.

[DinoDude65]

@EinsteinxtremeRoblox

Didn't Erasmus give us what is called Classical Latin. With the "V"s pronounced as "W"s and so forth?

[EinsteinxtremeRoblox]

@DinoDude65 I'm sorry, but I don't understand the question.

[EinsteinxtremeRoblox]

We don't know how the Latin language was actually pronounced, so everyone who learns it or tries to speak it today has a very bad accent. It is useless!

[donotlosefaith]

keep ancient latin language alive it's a beautiful language. it shall never die in my heart for it remains internally :)

[AFNYOAQIS]

English has so many latin words it might as well be considered a "half romance" language. lol

[sgtkiko]

French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish,

[carameloxx]

THE LATIN RACE STILL EXIST............=)

[Southparknscrubs]

I took two and a half years of Latin, and sure it helped me, but only helped me learn Italian easier and know the meaning of some words by one of the affixes. If you wanted to understand English better, learn German. It's a win-win because German isn't a DEAD language. Learn Latin if you really want to, but Latin requires so much grammar that isn't anything like modern languages. (The verb is after the noun) and (Declining nouns - no modern language requires nouns being declined) etc.

[francomug]

@Southparknscrubs As a native English speaker you might think so, but you must not generalise it. Other modern languages like German and Russian still use the declination of the nouns. Romanian nouns are declinated. Even Italian uses the declination for the pronouns. And think about the wonderful possibillities of the Italian verbs - all the useful tempora, the gerundio, the consecutio temporum - all still there. Italian and Latin helped me to use my native German with more care.

[KingPiccolOwned]

@francomug If it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you explain what noun declination is.

[francomug]

@KingPiccolOwned declination=declension, flexion;

In modern English you can't distinguish the subject from the objects by the word itself. Only their position in the sentence will tell you. The subject always goes first, followed by the verb and the objects. The only exception is the -s ending of the possessive case, the genitive; and this is no accident as the position of the attributes has to be more variable.

[francomug]

@KingPiccolOwned Old English nouns had distinguished endings for each of the four cases. Consequently the position of the words in the sentence was relative free which enabled the possibility for fine nuances of the sentences meaning.

[KingPiccolOwned]

@francomug So I presume declension is something that exist solely for nouns then.

[francomug]

@KingPiccolOwned No, pronouns and adjectives are declinated too.

By the way, the user ProfASAr shows many interesting videos about recent and historical languages here on youtube, among them Old English and Middle English. I found a lot of information there I didn't know before.

[coutinhoware]

@Southparknscrubs "no modern language requires nouns being declined" hahahaha you should try to learn Russian or Polish, dude.

[Southparknscrubs]

@coutinhoware I apologize, I meant no modern romance language. I've studied Spanish, Italian, French, and I've been to portuguese countries, and I haven't seen any macrons. But there's a possibility I could be wrong.

[urmo345]

Learn it, it is exotic but extremely useless if you are not historian...

[crispen1151]

I am losing my filadis to speak properly! My fron hurts...

[Hotakdude]

French is Queer

[BullshitWatcher]

Latin has neither a definite article nor an indefinite article.

Moreover, Possessive articles and personal pronouns are omissible.

Looks elegantly compact, just suitable for memorizing, fast reading, and fast writing lots of Stuff, and that would be the #1 reason we should have universities that teach sciences in Latin.

[RENEDU2]

Anglophones suck at Romance language pronounciation

little people use little words..xD

[lamortedietrolangolo]

@RENEDU2 Yes it's true,anglophones can't speak italian, for example.

Opposite too, I can't speak English, I tried but people laugh when I start speaking ahah, they're destroying my self esteem. Nevermind.

[jdalight]

thats wrong of them to laugh at you about trying to speak english i understand im self conscious about speaking spanish @lamortedietrolangolo

[Spanguolle]

Pointless video.

[aivopark]

Caesar, Tiberius, Caligula, Nero, Claudius and amphitheatres...do I have to tell you more reasons to learn latin? And don`t forget Leptis Magna in Libya, Marcus Aurelius home town.

[Fperez04]

this video is boring man great info but boring video dude

[platano214]

English isnt a romance language yet it makes heavy use of Latin/greek based prefixes/suffixes and word roots for it's higher register words.....Even at times more so than the actual romance derivatives themselves..because of english's unique ability of openness to foreign terminology...

[tumbledon]

darn.....my art teacher took me from my spanish class. He told me art is considered a language for you. And stuck me in another art class. I should have stayed...and learned another lanquage. I want to learn Latin. Always had an interest.....

[metallicaxXx7]

i love latin :D

[kokulink]

@metallicaxXx7Estuans interius ira vehementi

Sors immanis Et inanis

Veni, veni, venias,

Ne me mori facias

[tuintu]

@kokulink

Final Fantasy :))

[kokulink]

@tuintu :) correct!! latin is good!!

[alreadytaken334]

Quae sufficit!

[horsefeathers87]

england does not speak latin because of the later conquering germanic tribes that conquered the area in 600s. this is why english is a germanic language not romance. the original language of the island i think is either galic, or celtic correct me if i am wrong.

[geodemus]

@horsefeathers87

You are wrong. Well, you are right too... So English is not a romance language but it has soo many words from the Latin:

study - studium

student - studiosus

to learn ->from germanic

to study ->from romance

but the meaning is the same

[horsefeathers87]

now mayagar is a unique european language neither relating to germanic or romance but holds its own. hungarian and finnish are the 2 unique languages of europe

[Vojak3]

@horsefeathers87 But without european descent. You are ''special''.. finno-ugric is not indogermanic.

[shadow6543]

when William the Conquer invaded england in 1066 he introduced parts of French i believe into the English languge old English is pure Germanic but modern English is both

[newjersey02]

@horsefeathers87 latin is annoying. English is mysterious.

[derekperson10111]

SUM DEUS

[geodemus]

@derekperson10111

Deus sum.  < -Corrrect

[AceOfSpades42x]

I'm amused by the Super Smash Bros. Brawl main theme being used during the ending credits. However, I didn't mind the video.

[IvoryVladescu]

haha, i've always wanted to learn latin! but i failed french in school so they wouldnt let me do latin :(

btw, u look like jesus

[lost4942]

numquam *

[lost4942]

multitudinis,cohaerentis,numqu­am profligabuntur... but i'm not sure :D

[xgenra]

how do I say in latin...

THE PEOPLE, UNITED, WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!

?

[4everGaGa13]

@xgenPopulus , this is how you say THE PEOPLE,UNITED, WILL BE DEFEATED! in latin.Populus , Iunctus , MOS NUNQUAM Exsisto? evinco

[pologeo17]

i wish i was born in the time of the ancient romans :(

[Askelairlines747]

haha "tempus puget" my math teacher thaught me that one. "time goes"

and "tabula rasa" blank board or something

[JediPaladin]

It's "tempus fugit" ;)

[vincentbadminton]

Carpe Diem is the reason not alot of ppl learn latin :p

[danedaworld]

yea

[tmsods]

@vincentbadminton

thats sad

[wermmakir]

Eugepae!