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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.
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.
[130] May still be spoken. June 1982 Kansa: Siouan: Oklahoma, United States with the death of Ralph Pepper 1982: Bala: Tungusic: Zhangguangcai Range [131] 1982: Dagoman: Australian: Northern Territory, Australia: with the death of Martha Hart [132] by 1982: Dyugun: Australian: Western Australia [133] by 1982: Kato: Na-Dene: California, United ...
Latin was the official language of the Roman army until the mid-6th century, and remained the most common language for military use even in the Eastern empire until the 630s. [32] By contrast, only two bishops are known to have spoken Latin at the ecumenical councils held during the reign of Theodosius II (d. 450 AD). [33]
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 ...
The United Nations (UN) estimates that more than half of the languages spoken today have fewer than 10,000 speakers and that a quarter have fewer than 1,000 speakers; and that, unless there are some efforts to maintain them, over the next hundred years most of these will become extinct. [27]
The Veronese Riddle (c. 800) is considered a mixture of Italian and Latin. [124] 986: Khitan: Memorial for Yelü Yanning: late 10th century: Old Church Slavonic: Kiev Missal [125] Cyril and Methodius translated religious literature from c. 862, but only later manuscripts survive. late 10th century: Konkani/Marathi: inscription on the ...
Romanian is also spoken in Israel by Romanian Jews, [24] where it is the native language of five percent of the population, [25] and is spoken by many more as a secondary language. The Aromanian language is spoken today by Aromanians in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, and Greece. [26]