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71Latin-Faliscan languages — language group proposed by some scholars to be included in the Italic branch of Indo European languages. The group includes Latin, which emanated from Rome, and Faliscan, spoken in the Falerii district in southeastern Etruria. Closely… …
72Latin — Language of the Romans; known in the *ASC as book language . It was the common language of scholarship, learning and teaching in England and Europe. Cf. Boclaeden; Vulgate …
73Latin American — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ relating to the parts of the American continent where Spanish or Portuguese is the main national language. ► NOUN ▪ a person from this region …
74History of Latin — Latin is a member of the family of Italic languages, and its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were derived from the Greek and Phoenician scripts. Latin was first brought to the Italian peninsula… …
75English language — Language belonging to the Germanic languages branch of the Indo European language family, widely spoken on six continents. The primary language of the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and various Caribbean and Pacific… …
76Latin America, history of — Introduction history of the region from the pre Columbian period and including colonization by the Spanish and Portuguese beginning in the 15th century, the 19th century wars of independence, and developments to the end of World War II.… …
77Latin American literature — Introduction the national literatures of the Spanish speaking countries of the Western Hemisphere. Historically, it also includes the literary expression of the highly developed American Indian civilizations conquered by the Spaniards. Over …
78Latin Union — Infobox Geopolitical organization name = Latin Union native name = ca icon ca. Unió Llatina es icon es. Unión Latina fr icon fr. Union Latine it icon it. Unione Latina pt icon pt. União Latina ro icon ro. Uniunea Latină linking name = the Latin… …
79Basque language — Language spoken by an estimated 1,000,000 Basque people living in the Basque Country of north central Spain and southwestern France. About 200,000 Basques live in other parts of the world. The only remnant of the languages spoken in western… …
80Latin influence in English — English has been called a Germanic language with a Romance vocabulary. Estimates of native words (derived from Old English) in English range from 20% ndash;33%, with the rest made up of foreign borrowings. A large number of these borrowings are… …
