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Latin is a "dead" language. Latin is not spoken in any nation. Latin was the language of ancient Rome, and at the height of the Roman Empire, it was the lingua franca for a large part of the civilized world. It persisted as the language of scholars through the middle ages, and lives on today in the forms of the various romance languages which all derived from Latin (Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.) It also endures in many scientific nomenclatures, and is the language of the Catholic church's scriptures.