Latin Lives
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Latin Lives
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Re: Latin Lives
#2To complement, here is a [parody] metal song in Latin. Press "Play".
http://iramen.ru/spisok/stramosljabi_alba-potentia.html
(can't comment on the quality of language tho)
Re: Latin Lives
#3To complement, here is a [parody] metal song in Latin. Press "Play". http://iramen.ru/spisok/stramosljabi_alba-potentia.html (can't comment on the quality of language tho)
There's actually a number of bands in Germany that uses various old/dead languages including Latin. In most cases they are just musical adaptations of historic texts, though, not novel works entirely.
As far as rap music goes, I particularly enjoy this[0] interpretation of the "love" song "Ich was ein chint so wolgetan" (it's actually about rape, from the perspective of the victim[1]). It's alternating between Middle High German and Latin.
[0]: http://mp3.pm/song/13460415/Schelmish_-_Ich_Was_Ein_Chint/
[1]: http://lyrics.wikia.com/Helium_Vola:Ich_Was_Ein_Chint_So_Wol...
Re: Latin Lives
#4To complement, here is a [parody] metal song in Latin. Press "Play". http://iramen.ru/spisok/stramosljabi_alba-potentia.html (can't comment on the quality of language tho)
Re: Latin Lives
#5I took Latin in high-school but I always wondered what Latin would have sounded like.
Re: Latin Lives
#6The article doesn't seem to mention this at all, but Latin definitely lives: it's called modern day Romanian. There are many differences but if Latin survived anywhere into modern times it would have to be Romania. I had some Latin in high school and that came in surprisingly handy, much more so than in other Latin derived languages.
Re: Latin Lives
#7The article doesn't seem to mention this at all, but Latin definitely lives: it's called modern day Romanian. There are many differences but if Latin survived anywhere into modern times it would have to be Romania. I had some Latin in high school and that came in surprisingly handy, much more so than in other Latin derived languages.
Funny how Latin sounds so prestigious, while Romanian (even though the word clearly claims, well, Roman ancestry) has no such bling to it. Only because I was exposed to it by a Romanian student I got to know this, otherwise Romania's image made me think they used a slavic language.
Re: Latin Lives
#8I took Latin in high-school but I always wondered what Latin would have sounded like.
It's hard to tell with dead-languages; for example we say "chi" in english, but most grammars list χ as aspirated.
Re: Latin Lives
#9The article doesn't seem to mention this at all, but Latin definitely lives: it's called modern day Romanian. There are many differences but if Latin survived anywhere into modern times it would have to be Romania. I had some Latin in high school and that came in surprisingly handy, much more so than in other Latin derived languages.
Funny how Latin sounds so prestigious, while Romanian (even though the word clearly claims, well, Roman ancestry) has no such bling to it. Only because I was exposed to it by a Romanian student I got to know this, otherwise Romania's image made me think they used a slavic language.
It's a weird mixture actually, there are quite a few Slavic influences, and even a bit of Greek.
Re: Latin Lives
#10I took Latin in high-school but I always wondered what Latin would have sounded like.
It's hard to tell with dead-languages; for example we say "chi" in english, but most grammars list χ as aspirated.
The pronunciation of Latin is extremely well studied and mostly known, including changes throughout its history.
Unfortunately it's quite far away from the pronunciation I've learned in school.
(and what Americans usually use seems to be even farther away)