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January 26

Are there contemporary journals written in Latin?

or in any other extinct language?

HOTmag (talk) 09:18, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Our page on Contemporary Latin lists several Latin periodicals: Vox Latina in Germany, Melissa in Belgium, Hebdomada Aenigmatum and Ephemeris in Italy, and Vita Latina (apparently no longer entirely in Latin) in France. There are over 90 periodicals in Sanskrit including the daily newspaper Sudharma, but it's doubtful whether that's really a dead language. An Gannas, An Gowsva, An Garrick and other magazines are written in the once-extinct language Cornish. --Antiquary (talk) 09:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

And having belatedly read the Hebdomada Aenigmatum article through I find it has a sister publication in Ancient Greek called Onomata Kεχιασμένα. --Antiquary (talk) 11:38, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Onomata kechiasmena or Ὀνόματα Kεχιασμένα Wymspen (talk) 16:43, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

If you follow my link you'll see the magazine gives the title in mixed Latin and Greek on its front cover. --Antiquary (talk) 17:15, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I don't think that's mixed Latin and Greek. It's just that in all caps, with no accents, those particular Greek letters are indistinguishable from Roman letters. Deor (talk) 17:25, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

• In addition, the official gazette of the Vatican City is Acta Apostolicae Sedis, which is probably the only Latin publication that isn't simply an enthusiast project - although that now includes an Italian supplement. Smurrayinchester 10:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Oh, and the Latin-language college Accademia Vivarium Novum has its own student newspaper, the Mercurius. Smurrayinchester 10:54, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

Depending on what you call a journal, there is always the Latin Wikipedia.--Mrs Wibble-Wobble (talk) 19:02, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

At Special:SiteMatrix, the row "Latina (Latin)" has blue links for five Wikimedia projects.

—Wavelength (talk) 15:04, 29 January 2017 (UTC)