Here's some more good news from two days ago: enrollment in Latin at a high school called Granville High School in Newark, Ohio (a city very close to the state capital) is up for two years running now. Two years ago 93 students were taking the language, last year it increased a tad to 101, and this year it reached 160, meaning that extra sessions were added to accommodate this. There is no information in the article on whether enrollment has increased throughout the state as well, but it's very likely considering that this has been the case in other locations such as New York, which has seen a 26% increase over the past four years.



That link with the New York numbers also mentions that there is a location in the state close to the capital called Clifton Park, which is the area where the largest concentration of Latin students can be found. In the Shenendehowa Central School District there 420 students are learning Latin, and just looking at this school district alone it would mean that a full 1.15% of the people living there were learning the language. Add to that other school districts and people who had studied the language previously and thus retain a bit of skill in the language, and there may be some opportunity there for proponents of Latin's revival.



The reason for this is given here, on Wikipedia's page on language revitalization. There one can see the eight steps proposed for the revitalization of a language, which must be done in sequential order after the previous steps have been achieved. Steps one to three of this process are as follows:





Acquisition of the language by adults, who in effect act as language apprentices (recommended where most of the remaining speakers of the language are elderly and socially isolated from other speakers of the language). Create a socially integrated population of active speakers (or users) of the language (at this stage it is usually best to concentrate mainly on the spoken language rather than the written language). In localities where there are a reasonable number of people habitually using the language, encourage the informal use of the language among people of all age groups and within families and bolster its daily use through the establishment of local neighbourhood institutions in which the language is encouraged, protected and (in certain contexts at least) used exclusively.