Summary
Petar Ušković Croata: Croatian-Latin conversation manual
Latin, due to historical circumstances, is today primarily the language of one-way diachronic communication. This means that by reading the original Latin texts of Roman and later Latin authors we are somehow communicating with the past. Although it has not been anyone's mother tongue for centuries and there are no native speakers, it must be said that Latin has never completely ceased to be the language of active communication. Today, Latin is used as the official language in the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican State, and around the world there are institutions and associations that deal with the study of the Latin language and all periods of literature written in it. In addition, there are institutions and individuals who write in Latin and foster its active use.
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