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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 ...
Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects of the Western Roman Empire, diverging significantly after 500 AD, evolved into the early Romance languages, whose writings began to appear about the 9th century.
The spoken Latin that would later become Romanian diverged somewhat more from the other varieties, as it was largely separated from the unifying influences in the western part of the Empire. Spoken Latin began to diverge into distinct languages by the 9th century at the latest, when the earliest extant Romance writings begin to appear.
In Classical Latin k appeared in only a few words like kalendae, Karthagō - which could also be spelt calendae, Carthagō. [28] x represented /ks/. In Old Latin, /ks/ was also spelled in other ways like ks cs xs . The letter x was borrowed from the Western Greek alphabet, where chi χ stood for /ks/ as well.
X was named /eks/ rather than /kseː/, as /ks/ could not begin a word in Latin (and possibly Etruscan). When the letter Y was introduced into Latin, it was probably called hy /hyː/ as in Greek (the name upsilon being not yet in use), but was changed to i Graeca ("Greek i") as Latin speakers had difficulty distinguishing the sounds /i/ and /y/.
In general, those words with lengthened vowels in pre-antepenult syllables before a semivowel in the next syllable are those that are derive from a word with a regularly lengthened vowel in an antepenult syllable, e.g., Æthiopia from Æthiops ("Ethiopian"), Ecclesiastes from ecclesia ("church"), mediator from medium, negotiator from negotium ...
Formula e pagëzimit, a baptismal formula in a letter of Archbishop Pal Engjëll: Some scholars interpret a few lines in the Bellifortis text (1405) as Albanian. [165] c. 1470: Finnish: single sentence in a German travel journal [166] The first printed book in Finnish is Abckiria (1543) by Mikael Agricola. c. 1470: Maltese: Il Cantilena: 1485: Yi
A number of words and names for which Etruscan origin has been proposed survive in Latin. At least one Etruscan word has an apparent Semitic/Aramaic origin: talitha 'girl', that could have been transmitted by Phoenicians or by the Greeks (Greek: ταλιθα). The word pera 'house' is a false cognate to the Coptic per 'house'. [121]