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Latin learning was never revived--it never stopped being taught. For a brief history, throughout the Roman Empire, Latin was spoken in all of the empire as a trade language. After the empire's fall, Latin remained the language for trade (although that was phased out eventually) and for education. Throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of the educated--one of the main ideas of the Renaissance was the rise of local languages and the use of these instead of Latin for literature. So it was during the Renaissance that Latin stopped being the language for literature, although it continued on as the language of the sciences (very broadly speaking) and religion (where it continues today in the Catholic church). Only in the mid-20th century did it stop being standard for all students beyond elementary school to learn Latin, and Latin is still taught at a high school level (and middle school, in some countries).

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