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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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- Latin: story of a world language
"Romance" languages finally did during the European Renaissance? The earliest surviving Latin inscriptions date from the sixth century BC, but the language did not begin to emerge as a literary medium until
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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.