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What is Latin? The question is not so easily answered! Please share your thoughts in the comments below.

The problem is in defining what should be proper Latin style, often called "Latīnitās" or "Latinity" by the ancient Romans and educated speakers of the language for the past 2,000 years. A majority of authors who followed the Gold Age of Roman literature, spanning from approximately 70 BC to 18 AD, including the very gold standard of Latinity, namely the works of Marcus Tullius Cicero, were effective or supremely good at imitating the style of their predecessors over the millennia, giving us the gift today of an unbroken chain of Latin speakers and authors since antiquity.

There are many thousands of people today who speak and write in Latin on a daily basis — see the myriad links below for all the podcasts, YouTube channels, blogs, books, schools, and conventions where Latin is the *sole* instrument of communication — and we who use the language actively must ask ourselves what the standard, proper, right use of the language is, from vocabulary to syntax. No doubt Cicero is to be imitated most assiduously, but what of other authors who came after who deviate from this style? particularly the Mediaeval and Renaissance authors, who form more than 80% of the almost innumerable works written in Latin over the centuries. Are we allowed to use their coins vocabulary terms and expressions? Or should we aim for something more Classical? Do we lose something or gain something by concentrating on Golden Age Latin with severity or exclusivity?

Thanks for sharing your thoughts in the comments below!

· Acroāmata Latīna / Latin Language Podcasts ·

Legio XIII
legioxiii.podomatic.com

Quomodo Dicitur
quomododicitur.com

Sermones Raedarii, Alexander Veronensis
sermonesraedarii.podomatic.com
patreon.com/alexanderveronensis

Satura Lanx, Irene Regini
podomatic.com/podcasts/saturalanx

Intercapedines Latinae, Rodericus Portela
spreaker.com/show/intercapedines-latinae

Reginaldus Mercator
podomatic.com/podcasts/reginaldusmercator

In Foro Romano
soundcloud.com/in-foro-romano

Philologia Perennis
podomatic.com/podcasts/philologiaperennis

Latinitium
latinitium.com/podcastindex

Discite Mecum
podomatic.com/podcasts/discitemecum

Auditiunculae
auditiunculae.podomatic.com

Sermones Erasmiani
podomatic.com/podcasts/sermoneserasmiani


· Canālēs Latīnī in Tubulō / Latin Language YouTube ·

ScorpioMartianus:
youtube.com/scorpiomartianus

Magister Craft:
youtube.com/divusmagistercraft

Latinitium:
youtube.com/latinitium

Aprilis Albuquerquensis:
youtube.com/channel/UCIlzHX1e0nmgsnVZS9f_71Q

Beatus Helvetius Salodurensis:
youtube.com/channel/UCpnnIJy7j6aHUOVhyjzajzg

Musa Pedestris:
youtube.com/channel/UCZj8wGAuymYFK9JFdd-IR5A

Noctes Wratislavienses:
youtube.com/channel/UCKrnMx3r2Tj9cv0nanAo35A

Nives Ursa:
youtube.com/channel/UC2O_cgsAg559ZYAzFk4p24A

Alexander Veronensis:
youtube.com/user/Alessandroconti399

Paedeia:
youtube.com/channel/UCpxWOYMpBz1vBFGO5VJ2rMQ

Stephanus "Rumak" Victorius
youtube.com/channel/UCKsXlPwvq17rQ2tIcixwRZw
and guest interview on Legio XIII podcast (Aug 17, 2018): podomatic.com/podcasts/legioxiii/episodes/2018-08-17T06_36_12-07_00

Magister Circulus, David Ring
youtube.com/channel/UCUTUPhsuCSN2xfSbzlFlFjA

Joannes Oculus
youtube.com/user/ioculus


Meet other Latin speakers! Weekly chats:
latinandgreekchats.weebly.com

Latin-speaking Conventicula in Lexington, KY, and Dickinson College, PA:
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/conventiculum-latinum

GrecoLatinoVivo:
http://grecolatinovivo.it/

Schola Latina:
http://scholalatina.it/en/

Polis Institute:
polisjerusalem.org

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