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1 day ago · Poland-Lithuania was a state without a common language, and large portions of the population spoke only in their respective languages: Polish, Ruthenian, Lithuanian, German, and Yiddish. It was not until the 18 th century that Polish established itself as an elite lingua franca throughout the whole region. Up to that point, Latin was often more ...
5 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and 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.
- 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...
- 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...
2 days ago · Poland, a country of central Europe, is located at a geographic crossroads that links the forested lands of northwestern Europe and the sea lanes of the Atlantic Ocean to the fertile plains of the Eurasian frontier. Poland’s capital city is Warsaw, and other important cities include Krakow and Gdansk.
1 day ago · You’ll learn the 100 must-know Polish words, from reading and speaking to perfecting your pronunciation.
Quemoy, pronounced / kɪˈmɔɪ /, is a name for the island in English and in other European languages. It may have originated as a Spanish or Portuguese transcription of the Zhangzhou Hokkien pronunciation of the name, Kim-mûi. This is the most common form of the islands' name in English.
5 days ago · Vada means “to look,” and it’s an old Lingua Franca word. The Parlyaree (another secret language, and a precursor to Polari) omee means “young man” of the speaker’s social set. Lally-drags are trousers, and sheesh — adapted from the French chichi — means showy, overly affected and gay.
1 day ago · Spanish ( español) or Castilian ( castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. Today, it is a global language with about 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain, and about 600 million when including second language ...
