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19 hours ago · When Latin words are used as loanwords in a modern language, there is ordinarily little or no attempt to pronounce them as the Romans did; in most cases, a pronunciation suiting the phonology of the receiving language is employed. Latin words in common use in English are generally fully assimilated into the English sound system, with little to ...
19 hours ago · Gregory Rabassa – prolific translator of Gabriel García Márquez, Julio Cortázar and several others; Frank Wynne – translator of Tomás Eloy Martínez, Arturo Pérez-Reverte; Esther Allen – translator of Antonio Di Benedetto, Felisberto Hernández, Jorge Luis Borges, Javier Marías and several other Latin American writers.
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19 hours ago · lj is a letter in some Slavic languages, such as the Latin orthographies of Serbo-Croatian, where it represents a palatal lateral approximant /ʎ/. For example, the word ljiljan is pronounced /ʎiʎan/. Ljudevit Gaj first used the digraph lj in 1830; he devised it by analogy with a Cyrillic digraph, which developed into the ligature љ
19 hours ago · Akkadian, a Semitic language, gradually replaced Sumerian as a spoken language in the area c. 2000 BC (the exact date is debated), but Sumerian continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific language in Akkadian-speaking Mesopotamian states such as Assyria and Babylonia until the 1st century AD.
19 hours ago · Latin i (which eventually developed into a separate letter j ) became generalized in a number of languages as a means of representing [d͡ʒ] or [ʒ]. Latin z , originally limited to words of Greek origin, became generalized as a means of representing [d͡z], thus for instance Old Spanish fazer [haˈd͡zeɾ] < FACERE.
19 hours ago · Signification of the Proper Names occurring in the Book of Enoch from the Hebrew and Chaldee languages. Apocryphi testamenti veteris, access to the Ethiopic Greek, a Latin translation; Introductions and others. The First Manuscript of the Book of Enoch. An Epigraphical and Philological Study of the Aramaic Fragments of 4Q201 from Qumran by ...
19 hours ago · Francis (Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis) was baptized Giovanni by his mother. His surname, di Pietro di Bernardone, comes from his father, Pietro di Bernardone. The latter was in France on business when Francis was born in Assisi, a small town in Italy. Upon his return, Pietro took to calling his son Francesco ("Free ...
