How prevalent is spoken Latin in Vatican City?

Well, you can find it on the ATMs! :-) Spoken Latin, which is technically the official language of the Catholic Church, is incredibly rare in non-liturgical, ordinary life. read more

As a result, when the Church says something, to those trained in Church Latin, its meaning becomes very concrete in the Latin. Ceremonially, too, it is a language which to this day has a powerful effect. read more

What became Vatican City was from 1870 to 1929 part of the Kingdom of Italy, whose official language also was Italian, and before 1870 it was part of the Papal States, in which standard Italian (based on Tuscan) and various Italian dialects, such as Emiliano-Romagnolo, were spoken, but which for the first centuries of its existence used Latin for all official purposes. read more

Italian is the most common language spoken in the Vatican. While Latin is the official language of Vatican City (all official documents must be translated into Latin), many languages are commonly spoken within the city-state with Italian being the primary working language. read more