page_title: List of revived languages
section_title: Latin
hierarchical_section_title: List of revived languages / Latin
caption_attribution_description: Automatic Teller Machine in Vatican City, showing instructions in Latin language. "Inserito scidulam quaeso ut faciundam cognoscas rationem"
context_page_description: A revived language or "Phoenix language" and "Zombie language" is one that, having experienced near or complete extinction as either a spoken or written language, has been intentionally revived and has regained some of its former status.
  The most frequent reason for extinction is the marginalisation of local languages within a wider dominant nation state, which might at times amount to outright political oppression. This process normally works alongside economic and cultural pressures for greater centralisation and assimilation. Once a language has become marginalised in this way, it is often perceived as being "useless" by its remaining speakers, who associate it with low social status and poverty, and consequently fail to pass it on to the next generation.
  The only substantial success story in the field of language revival is Hebrew; all other cases are projects of limited success.
context_section_description: Latin was historically the language of the Roman Empire, but spread through Europe and beyond, thanks partially to its role in the Roman Catholic Church and in higher register.
  Feature films and broadcasting have been conducted in Latin. Two notable examples include 1976's Sebastiane by Derek Jarman and Paul Humfress, and Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (which also contains long sections in Aramaic). Harry Potter has even been translated into Latin and ancient Greek.
caption: Latin in use on an ATM.
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