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23 hours ago · Latin (lingua Latina, pronounced [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Classical Latin is considered a dead language as it is no longer used to produce major texts, while Vulgar Latin evolved into the Romance Languages. [ 1 ]
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The charts below show the way in which the International...
- History of Latin
The Forum inscription (Lapis Niger, "black stone"), one of...
- Contemporary Latin
Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used...
- Pontifical Academy for Latin
The Pontifical Academy for Latin was founded on 10 November...
- List of Latinised Names
The Latinisation of names in the vernacular was a procedure...
- Old Latin
Old Latin, also known as Early, Archaic or Priscan Latin...
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23 hours ago · e. The Thracians (/ ˈθreɪʃənz /; Ancient Greek: Θρᾷκες, romanized: Thrāikes; Latin: Thraci) were an Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Southeast Europe and north-western Anatolia in antiquity. [1][2] They primarily resided on the territories of modern-day Bulgaria, Romania, northern Greece and north-western ...
23 hours ago · This article contains special characters. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (/ daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs /; Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος Dionysos) is the god of wine-making, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, festivity, insanity, ritual madness ...
23 hours ago · Sephardic Jews. Sephardic Jews (Hebrew: יְהוּדֵי סְפָרַד, romanized: Yehudei Sfarad, transl. 'Jews of Spain '; Ladino: Djudios Sefaradis), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, [a][1] and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, [2] are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal). [2]
23 hours ago · The Greek and Latin sources are divided on the birthplace of Zoroaster. There are many Greek accounts of Zoroaster, referred usually as Persian or Perso-Median Zoroaster; Ctesias located him in Bactria , Diodorus Siculus placed him among Ariaspai (in Sistan ), [ 11 ] Cephalion and Justin suggest east of greater Iran whereas Pliny and Origen ...
23 hours ago · The Late Latin word may be derived from an unidentified African language. [5] The Nubian word kaddîska 'wildcat' and Nobiin kadīs are possible sources or cognates. [6] The forms might also have derived from an ancient Germanic word that was absorbed into Latin and then into Greek, Syriac, and Arabic. [7]
23 hours ago · The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. [1]
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