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Latin by Shideh Almasian History of Latin Originated -> From Latium Romance Languages -> descended from Latin Latin was lingua franca* -> later replaced by French (18th) -> then English (19th) official language of church and Vatican

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Latin by Shideh Almasian

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History of Latin

Originated -> From Latium Romance Languages -> descended from Latin Latin was lingua franca* -> later replaced by French (18th) -> then English (19th)

fficial language of church and Vatican

still used to create new names

*learned language for scientific and political affairs

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Old Latin

75BC

Classical

late republic-first years of the empire

Vulgar

same time as Classical Latin

Medieval Renaissance New Latin Contemporary

until the end of the 17th century Nowadays

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Latin Alphabet

Adapted from Etruscan alphabet Y and Z taken from the Greek alphabet Direction : right to left J variant of I.U variant of V , W was introduced as a ‘double-v’. the letters J, U ,W were added to the alphabet at a later stage -> languages other than Latin.

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Is it alive ?

Dead! -> no longer spoken in the forms found in the ancient writings.

ld form -> has no native speakers

slowly evolved to -> Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian

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Latin Today

Most course -> focus on translating to modern languages Living Latin Movement Radio Bremen in Germany, YLE radio in Finland, and Vatican Radio & Television Some films of ancient settings, such as Sebastiane and The Passion of the Christ.

fficial language -> Holy See->its public journal, the Acta Apostolicae

Sedis,Roman Rota. Vatican City ->world’s only automatic teller machine that gives instructions in Latin.

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Corpus and Tools

Open Greek and Latin Project ( http://www.dh.uni-leipzig.de/wo/projects/

pen-greek-and-latin-project/ )

CLTK Latin linguistic data (http://docs.cltk.org/en/latest/latin.html)(NLP Tool) Musisque deoque (http://www.mqdq.it) Library of Latin Texts (CTLO 2010)(private) Bibliotheca Teubneriana Latina (CETEDOC 1999),(private) Perseus Digital Library Bamman and Crane 2008(http:// www.perseus.tufts.edu) Index Thomisticus (http://www.corpusthomisticum.org/) LatinISE : a Latin corpus for Sketch Engine(NLP Tool)

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Voice of Latin : Omnes homines dignitate et iure liberi et pares nascuntur, rationis et conscientiae participes sunt, quibus inter se concordiae studio est agendum. (All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and

rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and

should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. )

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Reference

Tools for historical corpus research, and a corpus

f Latin (Barbara McGillivray / Adam Kilgarriff)

Wikipedia on Latin Language What Is an Endangered Language?(Anthony C. Woodbury)