>>6216256An accurate comparison might be that if the Vatican reestablished the Papal States, holding Rome and surrounding regions instead of Italy's government, they managed to convince their citizens en masse to start learning and speaking Latin. Modern Latin descended languages are pretty much little more connected wth ancient Latin than Yiddish is connected with ancient Hebrew; both have influences from the older language, but Yiddish I think may have some more Germanic and Slavic influences, by this point.
