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
https://legioxiii.podomatic.com

Quomodo Dicitur
http://quomododicitur.com

Sermones Raedarii, Alexander Veronensis
https://sermonesraedarii.podomatic.com
  / alexanderveronensis  

Satura Lanx, Irene Regini
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sa...

Intercapedines Latinae, Rodericus Portela
https://www.spreaker.com/show/interca...

Reginaldus Mercator
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/re...

In Foro Romano
  / infororomano  

Philologia Perennis
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/ph...

Latinitium
https://www.latinitium.com/podcastindex

Discite Mecum
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/di...

Auditiunculae
https://auditiunculae.podomatic.com

Sermones Erasmiani
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/se...


· Canālēs Latīnī in Tubulō / Latin Language YouTube ·

ScorpioMartianus:
   / scorpiomartianus  

Magister Craft:
   / divusmagistercraft  

Latinitium:
   / latinitium  

Aprilis Albuquerquensis:
   / @aprilisalbuquerquensis  

Beatus Helvetius Salodurensis:
   / @beatushelvetiussalodurensi3658  

Musa Pedestris:
   / @musapedestris  

Noctes Wratislavienses:
   / @nocteswratislavienses  

Nives Ursa:
   / @nivesursa9181  

Alexander Veronensis:
   / alessandroconti399  

Paedeia:
   / @paideiamedia  

Stephanus "Rumak" Victorius
   / @rvmak  
and guest interview on Legio XIII podcast (Aug 17, 2018): https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/le...

Magister Circulus, David Ring
   / @magistercirculus210  

Joannes Oculus
   / ioculus  


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

Latinspeaking Conventicula in Lexington, KY, and Dickinson College, PA:
https://mcl.as.uky.edu/conventiculum...

GrecoLatinoVivo:
http://grecolatinovivo.it/

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

Polis Institute:
http://www.polisjerusalem.org/

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