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{{Infobox Language|name=Latin|nativename=|pronunciation=/laˈtiːna/|states=Vatican City developed into various [Romance languages by the 9th century|fam3=[Latino-Faliscan languages|nation=Vatican City
Used for official purposes, but not spoken in everyday speech]
Roman Catholic Church ) is an ancient [Indo-European languages that was spoken in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. The conquests of Rome spread the language throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe. It existed in two forms: Classical Latin, used in poetry and formal prose, and Vulgar Latin, spoken by the people. After the Decline of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church Latin became the common ecclesiastical language in Western Europe and the lingua franca of educated classes in the West.

After having lasted 2,200 years, Latin began a slow decline around the 17th Century. But Vulgar Latin was preserved: it split into several regional dialects, which by the 800s had become the ancestors of today's Romance languages. English language, though originating as a Germanic language, derives 35% of its words from Latin,Frederic M. Wheelock, Latin (book) (5th ed.), 1995. largely by way of Battle of Hastings, but partly through Inkhorn term made especially during the 1600s in England.

Latin lives on in the form of Ecclesiastical Latin spoken in the Roman Catholic Church. Latin vocabulary is also still used in science, academia, and law. Classical Latin, the literary language of the late Republic and early Empire, is still taught in many primary, grammar, and secondary schools, often combined with Ancient Greek in the study of Classics, though its role has diminished since the early 20th century. The Latin alphabet, together with its modern variants such as the English alphabet and French alphabet alphabets, is the most widely used alphabet in the world.

History , from the 6th century BC, is one of the earliest known Old Latin texts, and probably comes from the tribe of Latins.

Latin is a member of the Italic languages and its Latin alphabet is based on the Old Italic alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet. In the 9th century BC or 8th century BC Latin was brought to the Italian peninsula by the migrating Latins who settled in Latium, around the River Tiber, where ancient Rome would develop. During those early years Latin came under the influence of the non-Indo-European languages Etruscan language of northern Italy.

Although surviving Roman literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, the actual spoken language of the Western Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin, which differed from Classical Latin in grammar, vocabulary, and (eventually) pronunciation.

Although Latin long remained the legal and governmental language of the Roman Empire, Greek language became the dominant language of the well-educated elite, as much of the literature and philosophy studied by upper-class Romans had been produced by Greek (usually Athenian) authors. In the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which would become the Byzantine Empire after the final split of the Eastern and Western Roman Empires in 395, Greek eventually supplanted Latin as the legal and governmental language; and it had long been the spoken language of most Eastern citizens (of all classes).

Latin is widely taught among independant schools and is considered to be an important base for learning the english language.

Orthography To write Latin, the Romans invented the Latin alphabet, basing it on the Etruscan alphabet#The Etruscan alphabet, which itself was based on the Greek alphabet. The Latin alphabet lives today in lowercase as the writing system for Romance, Celtic, Slavic, and Germanic languages. English is a Germanic language and is written with a form of the Latin alphabet.

Ancient Rome did not use punctuation, letter spacing, or lowercase letters. So a sentence originally written as

PHILOSOPHIAESTARSVITAE;

would be rendered in a modern edition as

Philosophia est ars vitae;

and translated as

Philosophy is the art of life (or, the art of living).

has had a profound impact on later cultures, as demonstrated by this Ecclesiastical Latin Bible from 1407

Legacy The Campaign history of the Roman military spread Latin throughout Europe, and, eventually, Vulgar Latin began to dialectize, based on the location of its various speakers. Vulgar Latin gradually evolved into a number of distinct Romance languages, a process well underway by the 9th century. These were for many centuries only oral languages, Latin still being used for writing.

For example, Latin was still the official language of Portugal in 1296, after which it was replaced by Portuguese language. Many of these "daughter" languages, including Italian language, French language, Spanish language, Portuguese, Romanian language, Catalan language, and Romansh, flourished, the differences between them growing greater and more formal over time.

Out of the Romance languages, Italian is the purest descendant of Latin in terms of vocabulary, Applied Language Solutions: Latin though Sardinian language is the most conservative in terms of phonology. Foreign Languages: Italian, specifically, "Sardinian in fact conserves many archaic features from Latin which disappeared in Italian, such as the hard k-sound in words like 'chelu, where Italian has cielo."

Some of the differences between Classical Latin and the Romance languages have been used in attempts to reconstruct Vulgar Latin. For example, the Romance languages have distinctive stress (linguistics) on certain syllables, whereas Latin had this feature in addition to distinctive vowel length. In Italian and Sardo logudorese, there is distinctive length of consonants as well as stress; in Spanish and Portuguese, only distinctive stress; while in French length and stress are no longer distinctive. Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that all Romance languages, excluding Romanian, have lost their case endings in most words, except for some pronouns. Romanian exhibits a direct case (nominative/accusative), an indirect case (dative/genitive), and a vocative, but linguists have said that the case endings are a Balkan sprachbund innovation.

There has also been a major Latin influence in English. English language is Germanic languages in grammar, largely Romance in vocabulary, with Greek influence. Sixty percent of the English vocabulary has its roots in Latin (although a large amount of this is indirect, mostly via French). In the medieval period, much of this borrowing occurred through ecclesiastical usage established by Saint Augustine of Canterbury in the 6th Century, or indirectly after the Norman Conquest—through the Anglo-Norman language.

From the 16th to the 18th centuries, English writers cobbled together huge numbers of new words from Latin and Greek roots. These words were dubbed "inkhorn" or "inkpot" words, as if they had spilled from a pot of ink. Many of these words were used once by the author and then forgotten, but some were so useful that they survived. Imbibe, extrapolate, dormant and employer are all inkhorn terms created from Latin words. Many of the most common polysyllabic "English" words are simply adapted Latin forms, in a large number of cases adapted by way of Old French.

Latin mottos are used as guidelines by many organizations.

Grammar Latin is a Synthetic language, fusional language: affixes (often suffixes, which usually encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stem (linguistics)s to express grammatical gender, grammatical number, and grammatical case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns—a process called declension. Affixes are attached to fixed stems of verbs, as well, to denote grammatical person, number, grammatical tense, grammatical voice, grammatical mood, and grammatical aspect—a process called grammatical conjugation.

Nouns There are six main Latin noun cases. These play a major part in determining a noun's syntactic role in the sentence, so word order is not as important in Latin as it is in other languages. Because of noun cases, words can often be moved around in a sentence without significantly altering its meaning, though the emphasis will have altered. The cases, with their most important uses, are these:

Nominative: used when the noun is the subject of the sentence or phrase.

Genitive: used when the noun is the possessor of an object (example: "the horse of the man", or "the man's horse"—in both of these cases, the word man would be in the genitive case when translated into Latin). Also indicates material of which something greater is made of (example: "a group of people"; "a number of gifts"—people and gifts would be in the genitive case). Some nouns are genitive with special verbs too.

Dative case: used when the noun is the indirect object of the sentence, with special verbs, with certain prepositions, and if used as agent, or reference.

Accusative case: used when the noun is the direct object of the sentence/phrase, with certain prepositions, or as the subject of an infinitive.

Ablative: used when the noun demonstrates separation or movement from a source, cause, agent (grammar), or instrumental case, or when the noun is used as the object of certain prepositions; adverbial.

Vocative: used when the noun is used in a direct address (usually of a person, but not always).

Verbs Verbs in Latin are usually identified by the four main Latin conjugations—the groups of verbs with similar inflected forms. The first conjugation is typified by active infinitive forms ending in -āre, the second by active infinitives ending in -ēre, the third by infinitives ending in -ere, and the fourth by active infinitives ending in -īre. However, there are exceptions to these rules. There are six general grammatical tenses in Latin (present, imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, and future perfect), four grammatical moods (indicative, infinitive, imperative and subjunctive), six grammatical persons (first, second, and third, each in singular and plural), two grammatical voices (active and passive), and a few grammatical aspects. Verbs are described by four principal parts:

The first principal part is the first person, singular, present tense, and it is the indicative mood form of the verb.

The second principal part is the active infinitive form of the verb.

The third principal part is the first person, singular, perfect tense, active indicative mood form of the verb.

The fourth principal part is the supine form, or alternatively, the participial form, nominative case, singular, perfect tense, passive voice participle form of the verb. The fourth principal part can show either one gender of the participle, or all three genders (-us for masculine, -a for feminine, and -um for neuter). It can also be the future participle when that verb cannot be made passive.

Instruction in Latin

The linguistic element of Latin courses offered in secondary schools and in universities is primarily geared toward an ability to translate Latin texts into modern languages, rather than using it for the purpose of oral communication. As such, the skills of reading and writing are heavily emphasized, and speaking and listening skills are left inchoate.

However, there is a growing movement, sometimes known as the Living Latin movement, whose supporters believe that Latin can be taught in the same way that modern "living" languages are taught, i.e., as a means of both spoken and written communication. This approach to learning the language assists speculative insight into how ancient authors spoke and incorporated sounds of the language stylistically; patterns in Latin poetry and Latin literature can be difficult to identify without an understanding of the sounds of words.

Institutions that offer Living Latin instruction include the Vatican City and the University of Kentucky. In Great Britain, the Classical Association encourages this approach, and Latin language books describing the adventures of a mouse called Minimus have been published. In the United States, the National Junior Classical League (with more than 50,000 members) encourages high school students to pursue the study of Latin, and the National Senior Classical League encourages college students to continue their studies of the language.

Many international auxiliary languages have been heavily influenced by Latin. Interlingua, which lays claim to a sizeable following, is sometimes considered a simplified, modern version of the language. Latino sine Flexione, popular in the early 20th century, is a language created from Latin with its inflections dropped.

Latin translations of modern literature such as Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, The Adventures of Tintin, Asterix, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Little Prince, Max und Moritz, and The Cat in the Hat are intended to bolster interest in the language.

Modern use of Latin are in English and Latin as a tribute to Wallsend's role as one of the outposts of the Roman empireToday, Latin terminology is widely used, inter alia, in philosophy, medicine and law, in terms and abbreviations such as subpoena duces tecum and q.i.d. (quater in die: "four times a day"). The Latin terms are used in isolation, as technical terms.

Some films set in the Roman empire have been made with dialogue in Latin, such as Sebastiane and The Passion of the Christ.

The Pope delivers his written messages in Latin.

See also Latin language

Latin alphabet

Latin encyclopedia

Latin Wikipedia

Latin grammar

Latin literature

Latin poetry
List of Latin language poets
Panegyrici Latini

Latin profanity
Latin spelling and pronunciation

Latin regional pronunciation

Latinism

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Latin influence in English
List of Latin words with English derivatives
List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English
List of legal Latin terms
List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names
Latin honors
List of Latin phrases
List of Latin abbreviations
List of songs with Latin lyrics
Latinisation
List of Latinised names

List of Latin place names in Europe
AP Latin Literature

Latin culture

Latin liturgy

Latin Mass
Latin Rite

Hiberno-Latin
Judeo-Latin
Dog Latin
Pig Latin
Macaronic Latin
Ancient Rome

Culture of ancient Rome
Romanization (cultural)

Brocard
Carmen Possum
Internationalism (linguistics)
Interlingua
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Loeb Classical Library
Romance languages
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Historical periods Notes References

Bennett, Charles E., Latin Grammar (Allyn and Bacon, Chicago, 1908)
N. Vincent: "Latin", in The Romance Languages, M. Harris and N. Vincent, eds., (Oxford Univ. Press. 1990), ISBN 0-19-520829-3
Waquet, Françoise, Latin, or the Empire of a Sign: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries (Verso, 2003) ISBN 1-85984-402-2; translated from the French by John Howe.
Wheelock, Frederic, Latin: An Introduction (Collins, 6th ed., 2005) ISBN 0-06-078423-7

Frank Palmer. Grammar

External links

Latin Etymology, An Etymological Dictionary of the Latin Language
Latin Language, origin and history, grammar, vocabulary, texts, etc.
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum, a database of Latin texts and translations
The Perseus Project, a resource for classical languages and literature
Latin-English dictionary and Latin grammar, from the University of Notre Dame
Dictionary of Latin phrases
Freelang Latin-English dictionary to browse online or download
The Latin Library A collection of Latin texts: classical, Christian, medieval, and modern. See also The Latin Library
omniamundamundis, Latin texts from fourteen ancient Roman authors
Latin Vulgate, Latin and English translations of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible
Schola Latina Universalis, illustrated Latin textbook
Latin Online from the University of Texas at Austin
2007 National Latin Exam results
Understanding Anatomical Latin, explaining common medical/anatomical forms
Online Latin Community Web forum for discussion of Latin language both in Latin and in English
Latin language history and Classical Latin texts translated into English.

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Latinum, Latinum, the Latin Language Learning Podcast from London.
Classical Latin course - the most extensive free course available
Latin for Beginners - an ebook of a 1911 Latin textbook
Academia Thules offers online courses on Roman History, Philosophy, Archaeology, Religion, Language, Military Arts, Law.
Free public domain Latin textbooks - from TextKit.com
Beginners' Latin - UK Government website for learning Latin (UK National Archives)
Advanced Latin - covers the next stages.

Contemporary usage

Ephemeris, a Latin newspaper online
Nuntii Latini, weekly news of the world in Classical Latin published by Radio Finland
Memoria Press, editorial articles about the benefits of the study of Latin
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