| LATIN | ENGLISH |
Living as actively read communication? | YES! | YES |
Living for more than 2000 years as actively read communication? | YES! | no |
Living as actively written communication? | YES! | YES |
Living for more than 2000 years as actively written communication? | YES! | no |
Living as spoken in everyday settings? | minimal | YES |
Living for more than 2000 years as spoken in some fashion for communication? | YES! | no |
Living as transmitted in the family to infants as a first language of a social group? | no | YES |
Living as grammatically changing? | no | YES |
Living as lexically changing? | YES! | YES |
Living as a current lingua franca for most Western European academic, ecclesiastical, legal, governmental, and medical communications? | no | no |
Living for more than 1000 years as a lingua franca for most Western European academic, ecclesiastical, legal, governmental, and medical communications? | YES! | no |
Living as a widespread preferred medium for scientific nomenclature, mottoes, and handy practical expressions? | YES! | no |
Source of other current major Western/World languages? | YES! | no |
Maturity rating (approximate number of years as virtually fully developed in its modern form)? | 2100! | 500 |
WHY study Latin, Greek, and the Classical Humanities?
