"Latin: Story of a World Language" Lecture by Prof. Jürgen Leonhardt

Professor Jürgen Leonhardt gives a talk at Columbia University's Department of Classic on the language of Latin and its history around the world, based on his book.

[@athenassigil5820]

I just ordered and received this book! Lo and behold, I find the man who wrote it, giving a lecture. Great stuff!

[@DmytroZinkiv]

Salve, Lingua Latina!

[@reddyduckk]

I wish there were captions. the audio quality plus accents makes this very hard to understand at times

[@andywaughlen5309]

His ‘Tcherman’ accent is so thick you could cut it with a knife, but I wish I had ten percent of his knowledge of Latin...

[@hglundahl]

Sounts fery funny, I vish I hat sount on ...

[@boredchubbypanda]

I wish to learn about Latin and its origin. Which books should I read? It'd be really great if you could give me some suggestions.

[@stefan6903]

+Anu Priya Well since we are here - you might try a book by prof Jürgen Leonhardt himself - "Latin: Story of a World Language" but there is a host of others:
James Clackson : "A Companion to the Latin Language (Blackwell)", James Clackson, Geoffrey Horrocks: "The Blackwell History of the Latin Language",
Tore Janson, Merethe Damsgaard Sørensen, Nigel S Vincent: "A Natural History of Latin", or Nicholas Ostler "Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin", and of course, last but not least - Leonard Robert Palmer "The Latin Language" - there are many others, just referenced the ones that I think are the most useful and fun to read.,

[@boredchubbypanda]

+Stefan Thank you so much for the suggestions. I will definitely check them out. :)

[@shadowshow701]

How to distort History. To leave the role of the Catholic Church in the survival of Latin is like forgetting to mention England when writing history of British Empire.

[@ExVeritateLibertas]

The Roman Catholic Church standardized its liturgy in Latin because it was already the international language (in the West). The Church did not make it the international language.

[@johndorilag4129]

​@@ExVeritateLibertasNope, the Roman Catholic Church by adopting it as their official language - ecclesiastical Latin - their missions around the world, their schools around the world, their utilization in its liturgy around the world, etc. spread Latin to many of its influence around the world.

[@johndorilag4129]

It's called selective and cherry picking history. He probably is not a fan of the Catholic Church.

[@fabrizio.guidi64]

According to Giovannino Guareschi latin Is a precise, essential language. It Will be abandoned not because It Is inadequate to the news demands of progress, but because the new men Will no longer be adeguate to It. Just remove latin from the english language and see what remains of the english language

[@edwinhidalgo1242]

As a linguist, I believe this professor should write his worthy statements. However his speech in English is less than acceptable. Such strong German accent obscures his message. Prussian prepotency!

[@viisaus7187]

german accent is better than american english accent

[@edwinhidalgo1242]

German is not a language, it is a throat disease