If the Latin language is dead, why should someone study it?

I've attended the "Liceo Classico". Some of my friends who attended different kinds of High Schools often used to make fun of me telling that it's pointless studying dead languages like Ancient Greek and Latin. read more

The very fact that people study it means that Latin is NOT dead. A day will come when Latin is no longer taught, studied, or read. But for now, it is taught all over the world and is the object of study of many renowned scholars. read more

This is a very good question. We usually say that a language is dead when it is no more spoken and there are no more native speakers. read more

Not only does Latin provide the root words for all of the modern sciences (Reason 3), but Latin is the language of law, politics, logic, and theology. While a large number of words in science come from Greek, law is the exclusive domain of the Latin language. read more