What kind of Latin is used in your TLM and when praying the Rosary

[Francisco_Fernando]

I’m about to print a Latin Rosary and I’m going to be using Ecclesiastical Latin with an Italian accent. I want to know what kind do you use and experience.

 

[Anne1964]

My parish priest studied in Rome and he definitely has an Italian accent when he prays in Latin.

 

[Francisco_Fernando]

So was it regular or ecclesiastical, and what country?

 

[IanM]

Incidentally, should anyone seek tutorials regarding Ecclesiastical Latin prayer pronunciation etc. you will find several very good videos if you enter the following in the address bar and hit enter:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=latin+prayers+pronunciation

 

[quies]

TLM = Ecclesiastical Latin

Cicero, Sallust, Virgil, etc. = Classical Latin
(Veni, vidi, vici = WAYNE-ee WEED-ee WEEK-ee)

BTW, it is absolutely imperative that all first year classical Latin students memorize this little tune and bellow it loudly in the school hallways between classes!

(By fourth year Latin, you’ll make even Mario Lanza sound like a putz !)

 

[Titivillus]

I’m about to print a Latin Rosary and I’m going to be using Ecclesiastical Latin with an Italian accent. I want to know what kind do you use and experience.

How would the pronunciation of the language affect the printing??

 

[TomH1]

The Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite is celebrated in Ecclesiastical Latin. I am not sure that any particular accent is necessary. However, the pronunciation of Ecclesiastical Latin does tend to copy Italian pronunciation.

 

[Irishmom2]

Thank you.

 

[commenter]

The ecclesiastical pronunciation must have been standardized, in time and place, early by its use in the church. But how do we know what was the classical pronunciation? By the time the empire fell regional dialect must have become very diverse. The language was still used in writing, but outside church or church communities, spoken classical Latin would have have soon disappeared as languages developed.

 

[Anne1964]

Ecclesiastical Latin

 

[Fuerza]

Classical pronunciation, meaning the form used by residents of the City of Rome during a relatively limited time period (a few centuries), is largely an educated guess based on how Greek words were transliterated by Roman writers. The works of Cicero,who artificially “enhanced” his writing with Hellenic structures to make himself sound more sophisticated, were a great source for this research. The pronunciation of Latin outside the the limits of the city of Rome itself and the immediately surrounding areas varied considerably, as with any language spoken by a large population over a large geographical area.

 

[Bill_B_NY]

Ecclesiastical Latin with an Italian accent

That’s what we use, and I think that’s most common.

 

[Fuerza]

It is, though there are some difference in the pronunciation of EL in certain countries. Nations using West Germanic languages, other than English, (namely German and Dutch) tend to use a hard g in all contexts and and affricate variant of the soft c ( think the zz in pizza).

Also, I just watched a Mozarabic Mass online yesterday. It was mostly in Spanish, though the actual words of institution were chanted in Latin. Interestingly, the bishop used a highly Castilianized pronunciation, which I suppose makes sense even though I wasn’t expecting it.