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20 hours ago · Latin (lingua Latina, Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum, Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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The charts below show the way in which the International...
- History of Latin
Old Latin (also called Early Latin or Archaic Latin) refers...
- Pontifical Academy for Latin
The Pontifical Academy for Latin (Latin: Pontificia Academia...
- List of Latinised Names
The Latinisation of names in the vernacular was a procedure...
- Old Latin
Old Latin, also known as Early Latin or Archaic Latin...
- Common Language
A lingua franca (/ ˌ l ɪ ŋ ɡ w ə ˈ f r æ ŋ k ə /; lit. '...
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20 hours ago · The ISO 4217 code "GBP" (e.g., GBP 12,000 or 12,000 GBP) may also be seen should disambiguation become necessary. Currency code. The ISO 4217 currency code for sterling is "GBP", formed from the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for the United Kingdom ("GB") and the first letter of "pound".
20 hours ago · The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. The German term Deutschland, originally diutisciu land ('the German lands') is derived from deutsch (cf. Dutch), descended from Old High German diutisc 'of the people' (from diot or diota 'people'), originally used to distinguish the language of the ...
20 hours ago · "Nova Scotia" means "New Scotland" in Latin language and is the recognized Canadian English name for the province. In both Canadian French and Canadian Gaelic, the province is directly translated as "New Scotland" (French: Nouvelle-Écosse. Canadian Gaelic: Alba Nuadh). In general, Romance and Slavic languages use a direct translation of "New ...
20 hours ago · Spanish is described as a "verb-framed" language, meaning that the direction of motion is expressed in the verb while the mode of locomotion is expressed adverbially (e.g. subir corriendo or salir volando; the respective English equivalents of these examples—'to run up' and 'to fly out'—show that English is, by contrast, "satellite-framed ...
20 hours ago · Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". Georgetown is the capital of Guyana and is also the country's largest city. Guyana is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, Brazil to the south and southwest, Venezuela to the west, and Suriname to the east.
20 hours ago · Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.The country is on the Horn of Africa and is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest.
