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  2. History of Latin - Wikipedia

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    Neo-Latin, or New Latin, is applied to Latin written after the medieval period according to the standards developed in the Renaissance; it is however a modern term. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] The field of Neo Latin studies has gained momentum in the last decades, as Latin was central to European cultural and scientific development in the period.

  3. List of languages by time of extinction - Wikipedia

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    A word list was made in 1931. after 1931: Tuxinawa: Panoan: Acre, Brazil: A word list was made in 1931. by 1931: Aka-Bea: Andamanese: Andaman Islands, India [193] by 1931: Oko-Juwoi: Andamanese: Andaman Islands, India [193] after 1930: Sensi: Panoan: right bank of Ucayali River, Peru: A word list was created by Günter Tessmann in 1930. c. 1930 ...

  4. Latin - Wikipedia

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    There are seven Latin noun cases, which also apply to adjectives and pronouns and mark a noun's syntactic role in the sentence by means of inflections. Thus, word order in Latin is not as important as it is in English, which is less inflected. The general structure and word order of a Latin sentence can therefore vary. The cases are as follows:

  5. Spread of the Latin script - Wikipedia

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    The Latin script originated in archaic antiquity in the Latium region in central Italy.It is generally held that the Latins, one of many ancient Italic tribes, adopted the western variant of the Greek alphabet in the 7th century BCE [1] from Cumae, a Greek colony in southern Italy – making the early Latin alphabet one among several Old Italic scripts emerging at the time.

  6. Evolution of languages - Wikipedia

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    The highly diverse Nilo-Saharan languages, first proposed as a family by Joseph Greenberg in 1963 might have originated in the Upper Paleolithic. [1] Given the presence of a tripartite number system in modern Nilo-Saharan languages, linguist N.A. Blench inferred a noun classifier in the proto-language, distributed based on water courses in the Sahara during the "wet period" of the Neolithic ...

  7. Roman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The last reference to Gaulish was between 560 and 575. [101] [102] The emergent Gallo-Romance languages would then be shaped by Gaulish. [103] Proto-Basque or Aquitanian evolved with Latin loan words to modern Basque. [104] The Thracian language, as were several now-extinct languages in Anatolia, are attested in Imperial-era inscriptions. [93] [96]

  8. History of writing - Wikipedia

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    The most widespread descendant of Greek is the Latin script, named for the Latins, a central Italian people who came to dominate Europe with the rise of Rome. Around the 5th century BC, the Romans adopted writing from the Etruscan civilization , who wrote in a number of Italic scripts derived from the western Greeks.

  9. Contemporary Latin - Wikipedia

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    Contemporary Latin is the form of the Literary Latin used since the end of the 19th century. Various kinds of contemporary Latin can be distinguished, including the use of Neo-Latin words in taxonomy and in science generally, and the fuller ecclesiastical use in the Catholic Church – but Living or Spoken Latin (the use of Latin as a language in its own right as a full-fledged means of ...