This page may be out of date. Save your draft before refreshing this page. Submit any pending changes before refreshing this page. Hide this message . Quora Sign In Vatican City Latin (language) How prevalent is spoken Latin in Vatican City? It is supposedly the official language of Vatican City. Update Cancel 2 Answers Tom Sundaram , studied at Pontificia Universitá Della Sancta Croce Updated Oct 15, 2014 Well, you can find it on the ATMs!  :-) Spoken Latin, which is technically the official language of the Catholic Church, is incredibly rare in non-liturgical, ordinary life.  (Very very few Catholics know it well enough to speak it.)  It's a language which is used for two purposes (as far as I have been taught) - grammatical definitude, and ceremonial solemnity. The first is from the fact that Latin, as a dead language, does not have spoken "quirks" in the same sense as French or...