• Romance languages employ definite articles

    But Latin, the language of Vatican City State, doesn't. I favour cleaving as closely as is practical to the native names of places, a practice which seems to be adopted only sporadically by popular convention based, it seems, on a perverted notion of political correctness. It's odd that we are directed to say Mumbai and Beijing now, but there is no clamour for a general adoption by English speakers of Köln or Torino

  • Vatican City State

    If you mean the sovereign political entity, it’s The Holy See. And its working languages are Italian and French.

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