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Latin and Indo-European 1.1 Introduction Latin is an Indo-European language. This means that Latin is genetically related to most of the modern (and the ancient) languages of Europe, as well as many languages of India, Iran and Central Asia. The genetic rela-tionship accounts for the large numbers of similarities, both in vocabu-
This essay discusses three authors from the early seventeenth century (Galileo, Descartes, and Van Helmont) and the reasons that guided their decisions to write occasionally in their respective vernacular languages even though Latin remained the accepted language for learned communication.
- Sietske Fransen
- 2017
As Europe's distance from the spoken Latin of antiquity grew, the language-acquisition methodologies of antiquity were retained, but were turned to the new purpose of teaching Latin as a second language—and primarily a text language, not a spoken one.
By the second half of the 18th century and the 19th century the primary purpose of learning Latin was not to use it as a language of expression, but to understand the texts of the classical authors. Yet neither spoken use of Latin, nor the use of Latin in writing and publication, was ever entirely extinguished.
Latin maintained its role as the primary language by which the liberal arts and sciences were communicated throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Latin was the language of teaching and disputation in the schools and universities founded during the medieval centuries.
- Terence Tunberg
- 2020
That was when Latin largely ceased to be a language in active use, although it continued to be taught because it was viewed as crucial to the education and cultivation of the individual. Wherever the European tradition of education was valued, Latin continued to hold pride of place in the schools.
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on?that would ensure that Latin remained the official language of Western Europe. The Eastern part of the Empire had never given up Greek for Latin, and after the two halves of the Empire split away from each other, Latin became essentially a foreign language in the Greek speaking East. In the West, however, Latin became more entrenched,
