WI: Modern Day Latin Speaking Country?

JoeMulk

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Could you get a timeline where there is some type of movement to revive Latin as a spoken language and possibly an attempt to form a Latin speaking country?
 
Latin language is not even the first language of most of Vatican residents, Italian language is the one.

POD should have been before 1900 when Italy founding fathers decides to adopt the Vulgar Latin variant rather than the Tuscan-derived Italian ones.

I *think* it is THE official one, but then yeah, and the Vatican is also a VERY multilingual nation for obvious reasons.
 
Aside from the vatican, which has its own problems, as noted by others, this is asb with a post1900 pod.

Austria used to use latin for official purposes in its polyglot empire. I could see latin remaining as the imperial language if it became a quintuple monarchy, say, instead of a dual one.

Edit. So A instead of becomingAH becomes ABCGH, say. Austria.bohemia.croatia.galicia or ÖMBSCSP
 
In the Hungarian Crown lands, esp. Croatia, Latin remained in official use well into the second half of nineteenth century.
However, nobody ever dreamed of reviving it as a widespread spoken language.
I can see a surviving Austrian Empire or PLC doing that but probably the POD needs to be before 1750 at latest.
No way it can happen in Italy, not with a Modern Era realistic POD. It's not like Italian "Founding Fathers" picked a linguistic variant and enforced it over a previously "Vulgar Latin" speaking population. Tuscan was already the language of prestige and literature in most of the peninsula, since 1500 at least, (though most of the people outside Tuscany did not speak it) and nobody after that would have supported a "back to Latin" stance without major changes.
I can see a totaliatarian regime harking back to Rome trying such a thing, I hardly can see it successful.
 
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