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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.
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
The educational reforms initiated or pursued by Charlemagne in his Epistola de litteris colendis (Letter on the Cultivation of the Sciences), promulgated in about 785, and the Admonitio generalis (General Admonition) of 789 proved a crucial turning point in the history of Latin.
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.
- Jürgen Leonhardt
- 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 long after its spoken form was supplanted by modern languages.
- Kronenberg Kenneth;Leonhardt Jürgen
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- 9780674659964 / 0674659961
- Latin: story of a world language
Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed. How and when Latin came to be spoken has long been debated.
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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,
