Dear Dgeigh,

Actually I think Latin has been sent thru a transporter and scrambled--at least as to its pronunciation. The French schools have their own pronunciation. English speaking lawyers have their own barbaric phonology, and the Church has its own, heavily influenced by Italian pronunciation.

When you say Latin do you mean Vulgate or Classic Latin? Evidently scholars have reconstructed the pronunciation of Classic Latin. Whether they got it right or not no one knows, because there are evidenlty no equivalent of Sanscrit linguistic texts nor of course any sound recording to verify their conjectures.

I wonder if anyone out there knows exactly what sort of evidence they used in this reconstruction?

BraveLad