It is possible to determine, with a high degree of accuracy, how the Latin words were pronounced in ancient times. In our Latin books we do not use J j, but we distinguish the consonants V v from the vowels U u, except in titles that are written in capital letters, e.g. Not until the 16th century was the distinction between the characters I i and J j and between V v and U u observed. The characters J, U and W were unknown: I and V denoted the vowels i and u as well as the consonants j and v (pronounced like English y and w). The small letters are a later development of these capital letters. Orthography and PronunciationThe Latin alphabet had 23 letters: A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z (K was hardly used, Y and Z only in Greek words). Indeed more than half of the English vocabulary is directly or indirectly derived from Latin. Apart from the Romance languages, where non-Latin words are exceptions, English is the language which has absorbed by far the greatest number of Latin words. As a result of the position of Latin as the international cultural language, the national European languages have been enriched with large numbers of Latin words. Language survives in the Roman Catholic Church, and most scientific terms are still Latin. The Latin alphabet not used (until the 16th century)J, U In the Empire following centuries the dominion of Rome, imperium Rmnum, spread over the whole of Italy, and from there LINGVA LATINA, the Latin Language language of Latium The Latin language, lingua was the language of the the inhabitants of Latium, a region of central Italy, including the city of Rome (Rma), which according to the language of the Roman tradition had been founded by Rmulus in 753 B.C. Up to the 18th century Latin retained its leadership as the medium of international scholarship. And this dead language had such vitality that throughout the Middle Ages it remained unchallenged as the common language of the educated classes of Europe.
For centuries Latin was just as much a living language in the vast Roman empire as English is today in the English-speaking world. However, this is rather a misleading term. That is why it is called a dead language. Italian, Europe French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian. cultural Britain and Africa in the other provinces spoken Latin the language of developed into the Romance languages, e.g. the Romance After the fall of the Western Empire Latin was supplanted as a spoken language in some of the border provinces, e.g. In Greece and in the Eastern provinces Greek maintained its dominant position, so that the ancients had two world languages, Greek and Latin. in Dcia (Romania), the Latin language spread rapidly. In the Western European provinces, Hispnia, Gallia, Britannia, Germnia (Southern Germany), and in the Balkans, e.g. the Roman emperor ruled most of Europe, North Africa, and the Near and Middle East. Over the Western and Eastern Mediterranean.
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