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6 days ago · Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were derived from the Etruscan, Greek and Phoenician scripts. Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed.
2 days ago · The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.
- A “dead” language is one no longer learned as a first language or used in ordinary communication. Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgi...
- Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms...
1 day ago · The earliest known form of Latin is Old Latin, also called Archaic or Early Latin, which was spoken from the Roman Kingdom, traditionally founded in 753 BC, through the later part of the Roman Republic, up to 75 BC, i.e. before the age of Classical Latin.
3 days ago · May 26, 2024. English is often described as a "borrowing" language, with a rich history of adopting words from other languages. But no language has had a greater influence on English than Latin. It‘s estimated that 29% of all English words are derived directly from Latin. If we include words from Latin-based languages like French and Italian ...
2 days ago · Latin orthography refers to the writing system used to spell Latin from its archaic stages down to the present. Latin was nearly always spelt in the Latin alphabet, but further details varied from period to period.
6 days ago · The Latin alphabet as we know it was born with the Etruscans, in the Roman Republic times, around the 5th century BC. As the Roman Empire extended throughout Europe, so did the Latin alphabet, eventually reaching all the way to Romania and England.
6 days ago · While its use is still taught, Latin is no longer considered to be a developing language to the degree of most modern languages. The reasons for Latin dying out are numerous. Perhaps the most significant one has to do with the decline of the Roman Empire.
