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Latin (lingua Latina,
Latin: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa ɫaˈtiːna], or Latinum,
Latin: [ɫaˈtiːnʊ̃]) is a
classical language belonging to the
Italic branch of the Indo-European...
- to the
extent of the differences, and
whether Vulgar Latin was in some
sense a
different language. This was
developed as a
theory in the
nineteenth century...
- The
Romance languages, also
known as the
Latin or Neo-
Latin languages, are the
languages that are
directly descended from
Vulgar Latin. They are the...
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region it
served as the
primary written language,
though local languages were also
written to
varying degrees.
Latin functioned as the main
medium of scholarly...
- schooling.
Latin was
learnt as a
spoken language as well as written, as the
vehicle of
schooling and
University education,
while vernacular languages were still...
- Pig
Latin is a
language game, argot, or cant in
which words in
English are altered,
usually by
adding a
fabricated suffix or by
moving the
onset or initial...
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Latin is a
member of the
broad family of
Italic languages. Its alphabet, the
Latin alphabet,
emerged from the Old
Italic alphabets,
which in turn were...
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Medieval Latin should begin.[citation needed]
Being a
written language, Late
Latin is not the same as Vulgar, or more specifically, the
spoken Latin of the...
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Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and
other writings written in the
Latin language. The
beginning of
formal Latin literature...
- with
other Indo-European
languages, the
neologisms which are
coined for
modern concepts are
typically based on Gr**** or
Latin,
although written in Gaelic...