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1 day ago · Philological analysis of Archaic Latin works, such as those of Plautus, which contain fragments of everyday speech, gives evidence of an informal register of the language, Vulgar Latin (termed sermo vulgi, "the speech of the masses", by Cicero). Some linguists, particularly in the nineteenth century, believed this to be a separate language ...
2 days ago · Over time, Latin evolved and transformed, giving rise to what we now know as the Spanish language. The Latin Roots. At its core, Spanish emerged from the Vulgar Latin spoken by the common people. While Classical Latin was the language of the elite and official documents, Vulgar Latin was the everyday spoken language of the people.
4 days ago · Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgil, became “dead” after its form became fixed, whereas Vulgar Latin, the language most Romans ordinarily used, continued to evolve as it spread across the western Roman Empire, gradually becoming the Romance languages.
- 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 un...
- 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...
4 days ago · Gaulish in Western Europe was supplanted by Vulgar Latin. It is thought to have been a living language well into the 6th century. The legacy of Gaulish can be observed in the modern French language, in which 150–400 words are derived from the extinct Celtic language.
2 days ago · While a form of Vulgar Latin clearly survived in isolated communities during the Islamic epoch, [citation needed] there is much debate as to the influence it had (if any) on the development of the Sicilian language, following the re-Latinisation of Sicily (discussed in the next section).
4 days ago · Latin is a classical language that originated in the Italian region of Latium and Ancient Rome. It was widely used throughout the Roman Empire and remained the dominant language of the Western world for centuries. Its influence on modern languages and culture is profound, making it an essential subject of study for scholars and enthusiasts alike.
3 days ago · French is often called la belle langue (the beautiful language). So what makes French so belle (beautiful)? Is it its history, its culture, the wealth of literature written in its name? What about its sound, its structure, its stature that is simultaneously global yet otherworldly?
