Facebook users can now use Latin on the social networking website, which a representative from the organisation has said will be good news for students of the language.
Social media website Facebook has announced that users will now be able to change their language settings to Latin.
Elizabeth Linder, an associate on the organisation's communications team, wrote on the official Facebook blog that she was hugely grateful to all those people who helped translate the website into the "dead" language.
She pointed out that Latin will always be intriguing even if it has long been out of use, with only legal terms, school mottoes and plant names ever really referred to using its classic terms.
"To students of Latin, the availability of the language on Facebook may be just what's needed to narrow the distance between themselves and the venerable language," explained Ms Linder.
There are now more than 70 languages available on the social networking website, from hugely popular tongues such as English and Spanish to less utilised ones like 'Pirate'.
Last week, Facebook encouraged its users to become fans of the organisation's security page in order to stop people falling victim to scams.
06/10/2009
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I think I'llstick with Esperanto. It can be used in speech.
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