32 Facts About Latin language

Latin is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

The Latin language alphabet is directly derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets.

Vulgar Latin language was the colloquial form spoken at that time among lower-class commoners and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like Plautus and Terence and author Petronius.

Late Latin is the written language from the 3rd century and its various Vulgar Latin dialects developed in the 6th to 9th centuries into the modern Romance languages.

Medieval Latin was used during the Middle Ages as a literary language from the 9th century to the Renaissance, which then used Renaissance Latin.

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Later, New Latin evolved during the early modern era to eventually become various forms of rarely spoken Contemporary Latin, one of which, Ecclesiastical Latin, remains the official language of the Holy See and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church at Vatican City.

In particular, Latin language roots are still used in English descriptions of theology, science disciplines (especially anatomy and taxonomy), medicine, and law.

Today's instructional grammars trace their roots to such schools, which served as a sort of informal Latin language academy dedicated to maintaining and perpetuating educated speech.

The informal Latin language was rarely written, so philologists have been left with only individual words and phrases cited by classical authors and those found as graffiti.

Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin and were originally the popular and informal dialects spoken by various layers of the Latin-speaking population.

These dialects were distinct from the classical form of the Latin language spoken by the Roman upper classes, the form in which Romans generally wrote.

Vulgar Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear.

Latin language is taught at many high schools, especially in Europe and the Americas.

Variety of organisations, as well as informal Latin language 'circuli', have been founded in more recent times to support the use of spoken Latin language.

Latin language is still spoken in Vatican City, a city-state situated in Rome that is the seat of the Catholic Church.

Works of several hundred ancient authors who wrote in Latin language have survived in whole or in part, in substantial works or in fragments to be analyzed in philology.

Wheelock's Latin language has become the standard text for many American introductory Latin language courses.

Ancient pronunciation of Latin has been reconstructed; among the data used for reconstruction are explicit statements about pronunciation by ancient authors, misspellings, puns, ancient etymologies, the spelling of Latin loanwords in other languages, and the historical development of Romance languages.

Thus the nn in Classical Latin language "year" is pronounced as a doubled as in English unnamed.

The acute accent, when it is used in modern Latin language texts, indicates stress, as in Spanish, rather than length.

Long vowels in Classical Latin language are, technically, pronounced as entirely different from short vowels.

Thus, Latin language 'siccus' becomes 'secco' in Italian and 'siccu' in Sardinian.

Old Latin language had more diphthongs, but most of them changed into long vowels in Classical Latin language.

Syllables in Latin language are signified by the presence of diphthongs and vowels.

Latin language was written in the Latin language alphabet, derived from the Etruscan alphabet, which was in turn drawn from the Greek alphabet and ultimately the Phoenician alphabet.

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Classical Latin language did not contain sentence punctuation, letter case, or interword spacing, but apices were sometimes used to distinguish length in vowels and the interpunct was used at times to separate words.

Regular Latin language noun belongs to one of five main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms.

Latin language lacks both definite and indefinite articles so can mean either "the boy is running" or "a boy is running".

Latin language sometimes uses prepositions, depending on the type of prepositional phrase being used.

Irregular verbs in Latin language are esse, "to be"; velle, "to want"; ferre, "to carry"; edere, "to eat"; dare, "to give"; ire, "to go"; posse, "to be able"; fieri, "to happen"; and their compounds.

Six tenses of Latin language are divided into two tense systems: the present system, which is made up of the present, imperfect and future tenses, and the perfect system, which is made up of the perfect, pluperfect and future perfect tenses.

Some Latin language verbs are deponent, causing their forms to be in the passive voice but retain an active meaning: hortor, hortari, hortatus sum.