15 Facts About Contemporary Latin

Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used since the end of the 19th century.

Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished, including the use of New Latin words in taxonomy and in science generally, and the fuller ecclesiastical use in the Catholic Church – but Living or Spoken Latin is the primary subject of this article.

Contemporary Latin is still present in words or phrases used in many languages around the world, as a relic of the great importance of New Contemporary Latin, which was the formerly dominant international lingua franca down to the 19th century in a great number of fields.

In fields as varied as mathematics, physics, astronomy, medicine, pharmacy, biology, and philosophy, Contemporary Latin still provides internationally accepted names of concepts, forces, objects, and organisms in the natural world.

Contemporary Latin has contributed a vocabulary for specialised fields such as anatomy and law which has become part of the normal, non-technical vocabulary of various European languages.

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Contemporary Latin continues to be used to form international scientific vocabulary and classical compounds.

Contemporary Latin has survived to some extent in the context of classical scholarship.

Contemporary Latin is used in most of the introductions to the critical editions of ancient authors in the Oxford Classical Texts series, and it is nearly always used for the apparatus criticus of Ancient Greek and Contemporary Latin texts.

University Orator at the University of Cambridge makes a speech in Contemporary Latin marking the achievements of each of the honorands at the annual Honorary Degree Congregations, as does the Public Orator at the Encaenia ceremony at the University of Oxford.

Capelle was called "the soul of the movement" when in 1956 the first International Conference for Living Contemporary Latin took place in Avignon, marking the beginning of a new era of the active use of Contemporary Latin.

Outside Great Britain, one of the most accomplished handbooks that fully adopts the direct method for Contemporary Latin is the well-known by the Danish linguist Hans Henning Ørberg.

Foundational first International Conference for living Contemporary Latin that took place in Avignon was followed by at least five others.

In 1986 the Belgian radiologist Gaius Licoppe, who had discovered the contemporary use of Latin and learnt how to speak it thanks to Desessard's method, founded in Brussels the for the promotion of Latin teaching and use for communication.

Terence Tunberg established the first Conventiculum, an immersion conference in which participants from all over the world meet annually to exercise the active use of Contemporary Latin to discuss books and literature, and topics related to everyday life.

Less academic summer encounters wholly carried out in Contemporary Latin are the ones known as, celebrated in Germany and attracting people of various ages from all over Europe.