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| • | Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages, those being most notably Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. The Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek, remains the most widely-used alphabet in the world. It is said that 80 percent of scholarly English words are derived from Latin (in a large number of cases by way of French). Moreover, in the Western world, Latin was a lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, being eventually replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the formal language of the Roman Catholic Church to this day, and thus the official national language of the Vatican. The Church used Latin as its primary liturgical language until the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Latin is also still used (drawing heavily on Greek roots) to furnish the names used in the scientific classification of living things. The modern study of Latin, along with Greek, is known as Classics. Source: [wikipedia: latin] |
midi:sound_files
| Latino Sequences of Miami | ||
| more than 2,500 latin midi sequences. | ||
| Latinoss.com | ||
| over 200 free latin midi files, and links to related sites. it also offers you a free email account. | ||
regional_and_ethnic:concerts_and_events
| Avive Productions | ||
| information on latin concerts and club nights in boston, ma area. | ||
| Kesta Happening DC | ||
| a listing of concerts and club nights in the washington, dc area. includes photographs and a message board. [requires flash] | ||
| Thalia Productions | ||
| a listing of brazilian music events in the san francisco bay area. | ||
world_languages:dictionaries
| Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid | ||
| about 15,000 words. search by a whole word or a stem. | ||
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