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  2. History of Latin - Wikipedia

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    [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. [ 13 ] Ad fontes was the general cry of the humanists, and as such their Latin style sought to purge Latin of the medieval Latin vocabulary and stylistic accretions that it had ...

  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. List of last words - Wikipedia

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    Both Eastern and Western cultural traditions ascribe special significance to words uttered at or near death, [4] but the form and content of reported last words may depend on cultural context. There is a tradition in Hindu and Buddhist cultures of an expectation of a meaningful farewell statement; Zen monks by long custom are expected to ...

  5. List of extinct languages and dialects of Europe - Wikipedia

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    Indo-European: 0–300s AD [3] Macedonia: Ancient Macedonians: Andalusi Arabic: Afroasiatic: 1600s AD [4] Al-Andalus: Andalusi Muslims Andalusi Romance: Indo-European: 1300s AD [5] Al-Andalus: Mozarabs and Muladí: Anglo-Norman: Indo-European: 1400s AD [6] Norman England: Anglo-Normans: Antrim Irish: Indo-European: 25 February 1983 [7] County ...

  6. Latin - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance Latin, in use from around 1300 to 1500, and the classicised Latin that followed through to the present are often grouped together as Neo-Latin, or New Latin, which have in recent decades become a focus of renewed study, given their importance for the development of European culture, religion and science.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 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]

  9. House of Habsburg - Wikipedia

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    The duchy was then assigned to a Habsburg but did not stay in the House long before succumbing to Italian unification. It was granted to the second wife of Napoleon I of France , Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma , a daughter of the Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor , who was the mother of Napoleon II of France .