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Apr 1, 2021 · Jürgen Leonhardt has written a full history of Latin from antiquity to the present, uncovering how this once parochial dialect developed into a vehicle of global communication that remained vital long after its spoken form was supplanted by modern languages.
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.
Nov 25, 2013 · Latin originated in the Italian region of Latium, around Rome, and became widespread as that city’s imperial might grew. By the first century BCE, Latin was already transitioning from a...
- Jürgen Leonhardt
- Latin: Story of a World Language
- Harvard University Press, 2013
- Kenneth Kronenberg
by which Latin became standardized, nor did he have the advantage of modern sociolinguistic theory to help explain the interactions between the spoken language and the Classical standard. Accordingly, we set out to write a new history of Latin that overcame some of the shortcomings we saw in Palmer. We decided to model the structure of the work on
Nov 25, 2013 · Jürgen Leonhardt has written a full history of Latin from antiquity to the present, uncovering how this once parochial dialect developed into a vehicle of global communication that remained vital...
- Jürgen Leonhardt
- Latin: Story of a World Language
- illustrated
- Kenneth Kronenberg
Oct 11, 2021 · History of the Latin Language as a World Language. Addeddate 2021-10-11 12:15:46 Identifier latin-story-of-a-world-language
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Latin became a dead language as it gradually stopped being the main spoken language across Europe. As the Roman Empire declined, so did the use of Latin, and it was gradually replaced by the evolving Romantic languages such as Italian, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
