2008/9/3 Milos Rancic <millosh(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Ilario Valdelli
<valdelli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
There are latin speakers in the Vatican for
example.
There are Old Greek speakers all over the world. But, there are no
native speakers of both; which is crucial for a new language edition
of a Wikimedia project. So, according to that, there will be no Latin
Wikinews nor Old Greek Wikipedia. (Or, if something is different,
someone from LangCom should say something.)
There are people all over the world than *can* speak Old Greek, but
does anyone actually do so routinely? As far as I know, people speak
it in order to learn it so they might read historical things written
in it. Latin is used by the Vatican as an official language on a
regular basis. I suppose the key thing is that Latin is still written
today, Greek is just read.