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The written form, maybe, but the spoken form not likely.

The Youtuber Ecolinguist ran an experiment where he had Romance language speakers (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) try to guess at riddles in Latin. Turns out Classical Latin is actually very different from most Romance languages, which descended more from "Vulgar Latin".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C77anb2DJGk





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