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any dialect of the language of ancient Rome an inhabitant of ancient Latium a person who is a member of those peoples whose languages derived from Latin of or relating to the ancient Latins or the Latin language "Latin verb conjugations" relating to people or countries speaking Romance languages "Latin America" relating to languages derived from Latin "Romance languages" of or relating to the ancient region of Latium "Latin towns"
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name=Latin
nativename=lingua latina
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states=Vatican City
region=Italian peninsula
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family=Indo-European languages!Indo-European
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La tino-Faliscan
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sil=LTN Latin is an 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 languageFrench, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian, are descended from Latin, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English languageEnglish. The Latin alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabetGreek, 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 languageFrench). 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 languageEnglish in the late 19th century19th. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the formal language of the Roman Catholic Church to this day, and thus the official national language of the Vatican CityVatican. 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 languageGreek 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.
Main features - Latin is a Synthetic languagesynthetic inflectional language: affixes (which most times encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stem (linguistics)stems to express grammatical gendergender, number, and grammatical casecase in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and grammatical personperson, number, grammatical tensetense, grammatical voicevoice, grammatical moodmood, and grammatical aspectaspect in verbs, which is called Latin conjugationconjugation. There are five declensions (''declinationes'') of nouns and four conjugations of verbs.There are six noun cases:#nominative casenominative (used as the subject of the verb or the predicate nominative), #genitive casegenitive (used to indicate relation or possession, often represented by the English ''of'' or the addition of '''s'' to a noun), #dative casedative (used of the indirect object of the verb, often represented by the English ''to'' or ''for''),#accusative caseaccusative (used of the direct object of the verb, or object of the preposition in some cases), #ablative caseablative (separation, source, cause, or instrumental caseinstrument, often represented by the English ''by'', ''with'', ''from''),#vocative casevocative (used of the person or thing being addressed).In addition, some nouns have a locative caselocative case used to express place (otherwise expressed by the ablative with a preposition such as ''in''), but this survival from Proto-Indo-European is found only in the names of lakes, cities, towns, similar places, and a few other words related to locations, such as "house", "ground", and "countryside". Latin itself, being a very old language, is far closer to Proto-Indo-European than are most modern Western European languages; it has, in fact, about the same relationship with PIE as modern Italian or French has to Latin.There are six general tenses in Latin (technically they are tense/aspect/mood complexes). The indicative mood can be used with all of them. The subjunctive mood, however, has only present, imperfect, perfect, and pluperfect tenses. These tenses in the subjunctive mood do not completely correlate in meaning to the tenses in the indicative.
Present system tenses - # Present tensepresent (''laudo'', "I praise")# Imperfect tenseimperfect (''laudabam'', "I was praising")# Future tensefuture (''laudabo'', "I shall praise", "I will praise")
Past system tenses - # Perfect aspectperfect (''laudavi'', "I praised", "I have praised")# Pluperfect tensepluperfect (''laudaveram'', "I had praised")# Perfect aspectfuture perfect (''laudavero'', "I shall have praised")The future perfect tense can also imply a normal future idea (like in "When I will have run...") and so may also sometimes be included in the present system.
Latin and Romance - After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Latin evolved into the various Romance languages. These were for many centuries only spoken languages, Latin still being used for writing. For example, Latin was the official language of Portugal until 1296 when it was replaced by Portuguese languagePortuguese.The Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin, the spoken language of common usage, which in turn evolved from an older speech which also produced the formal Classical Latinclassical standard. Latin and Romance differ (for example) in that Romance had distinctive stress, whereas Latin had distinctive length of vowels. In Italian languageItalian and Sardo logudorese, there is distinctive length of consonants and stress, in Spanish languageSpanish only distinctive stress, and in French languageFrench even stress is no longer distinctive.Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that all Romance languages, excluding Romanian, have lost their case endings in most words except for some pronouns. Romanian languageRomanian retains a direct case (nominative/accusative), an indirect case (dative/genitive), and vocative.In Italy, Latin is still compulsory in secondary schools as ''Liceo Classico'' and ''Liceo Scientifico'' which are usually attended by people who aim to the highest level of education. In ''Liceo Classico'' Ancient Greek is a compulsory subject.
Latin and English - ''See Latin influence in English for a more complete exposition.''English grammar is independent of Latin grammar, though prescription and descriptionprescriptive grammarians in English have been heavily influenced by Latin. Attempts to make English grammar follow Latin rules — such as the prohibition against the split infinitive — have not worked successfully in regular usage. However, as many as half the words in English were derived from Latin, including many words of Ancient Greek languageGreek origin first adopted by the Ancient RomeRomans, not to mention the thousands of French, hundreds of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian words of Latin origin that have also enriched English.During the 16th and on through the 18th century English writers created huge numbers of new words from Latin and Greek roots. These words were dubbed "inkhorn" or "inkpot" words (as if they had spilled from a pot of ink). Many of these words were used once by the author and then forgotten, but some remain. ''Imbibe'', ''extrapolate'', ''dormant'' and ''inebriation'' are all inkhorn terms carved from Latin words. In fact, the word ''etymology'' is derived from the Greek word ''etymologia'', meaning "true sense of the word."Latin was once taught in most of the schools in Britain with academic leanings - perhaps 25% of the total channel4.com. However, the requirement for it was gradually abandoned in the professions such as the law and medicine, and then, from around the late 1960s, for admission to university. After the introduction of the Modern Language General Certificate of Secondary EducationGCSE in the 1980s, it was gradually replaced by other languages, although it is now being taught by more schools along with other classical languages.
Latin education - The linguistic element of Latin courses offered in high schools or secondary schools, and in universities, is primarily geared toward an ability to translate Latin texts into modern languages, rather than using it in oral communication. As such, the skill of reading is heavily emphasized, whereas speaking and listening skills are barely touched upon. However, there is a growing movement, sometimes known as the Living Latin movement, whose supporters believe that Latin can, or should, be taught in the same way that modern "living" languages are taught, that is, as a means of both spoken and written communication. One of the most interesting aspects of such an approach is that it assists speculative insight into how many of the ancient authors spoke and incorporated sounds of the language stylistically; without understanding how the language is meant to be heard it is very difficult to identify patterns in Latin poetry. Institutions offering Living Latin instruction include the Vatican CityVatican and the University of Kentucky. In Britain the Classical Association encourages this approach, and there has been something of a vogue for books describing the adventures of a mouse called Minimus. In the United States there is a thriving competitive organization for high school Latin students, the National Junior Classical League (the second-largest youth organization in the world after the Boy Scouts of America), backed up by the Senior Classical League for college students. Many would-be International auxiliary languageinternational auxiliary languages have been heavily influenced by Latin, and the moderately successful Interlingua considers itself to be the modernized and simplified version of the language (''le latino moderne international e simplificate'').Latin translations of modern literature such as Paddington Bear, Winnie the Pooh, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Le Petit Prince and The Cat in the Hat (''Cattus Petasatus'') have also helped boost interest in the language.
See also -
About the Latin language - Latin grammar Latin spelling and pronunciation Latin declension Latin conjugation Latin alphabet List of Latin words with English derivatives Latin verbs with English derivatives Latin nouns with English derivatives ablative absolute Word order in Latin
About the Latin literary heritage - Latin literature Romance languages Loeb Classical Library List of Latin phrases List of Latin proverbs Brocard List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names Latin names of European cities Carmen Possum
Other related topics - Roman Empire Internationalismlatinperiods
External links - la WikibooksparLatin ethnologue.com - Ethnologue report for Latin forumromanum.org - Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum is a comprehensive webography of Latin texts and their translations. perseus.tufts.edu - The Perseus Project has many useful pages for the study of classical languages and literatures, including perseus.tufts.edu - an interactive Latin dictionary. lysy2.archives.nd.edu - words by William whitaker is a dictionary program online capable of looking up various word forms. retiarius.org - Retiarius.Org includes a Latin text search engine.nd.edu - Latin-English dictionary and Latin grammar from U of Notre Dame latin-language.co.uk - Latin language History of Latin language, Latin texts with English translation and a collection of dictionaries. augustinus.eresmas.net - Societas Circulorum Latinorum gathers together Latin Circles all over the world. learnlatin.tk - LearnLatin.tk - Free online course in Latin latintests.net - LatinTests.net - Lets Latin learners test their grammar and vocabulary with self-checking quizzes. thelatinlibrary.com - The Latin Library contains many Latin etexts textkit.com - Textkit has Latin textbooks and etexts. !websters-online-dictionary.org - Latin–English Dictionary: from Webster's Rosetta Edition. language-reference.com - Language reference Cross-foreign-language lexicon powered by its own search engine. All cross combinations between Latin and French, German, Italian, Spanish. comp.uark.edu - Rhetor by Gabriel Harvey was originally published in 1577 and never again reprinted. freewebs.com - omniamundamundis Latin hypertexts from fourteen ancient Roman authors. saltspring.com - Pronunciation of Biological Latin, Including Taxonomic Names of Plants and Animals yleradio1.fi - Nuntii Latini (News in Latin), written and spoken (RealAudio) news in latin. Weekly review of world news in Classical Latin, the only international broadcast of its kind in the world, produced by YLE, the Finnish Broadcasting Company. tranexp.com:2000 - InterTran Latin, Translate from Latin to ENGLISH or vice versa. latinvulgate.com - Latin Vulgate The Latin and English of the Old & New Testaments in parallel, along with the Complete Sayings of Jesus in parallel Latin and English. Category:Latin language Category:Classical languagesCategory:Ancient languagesCategory:Fusional languagesCategory:Languages of ItalyCategory:Languages of Vatican CityLink FAfi !af:Latynals:Lateinar:لاتي ية? !(لغة)ast:Llatínzh-min-nan: Latin-gíbe:Лацінская ? !моваbr:Latinca:Llatícy:Ll adinda:Latinde:Lateinet:Ladina ? keelel:Λατινική γλώσσαes:Latíneo:Latina !lingvofa:لاتینfr:Latinga: Laidingl:Lingua? latinako:라틴어id:Bahasa Latinia:Lingua latinis:Latínait:Lingua !latinahe:לטיניתka:ლა თინური? ენაkw:Latinla:Lingua Latinalv:Latīņu valodalt:Lotynų !kalbalb:Latäinli:Latienhu:Lat in? nyelvnl:Latijnnds:Latiensche !Spraakja:ラテン語mk:Лат ински? !јазикno:Latinpl:Łacinapt :Latimro:Limba? latinăru:Латинский языкsq:Gjuha Latinishtescn:Lingua latinasimple:Latin !languagesk:Latinčinasl:Latin činasr:Латински? !језикfi:Latinasv:Latintl: Wikang? !Latinth:ภาษาละต นvi:Latinhzh:拉丁语
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Websites
TRADITIO Traditional Roman Catholic Network
First Web Site on the Internet for Traditional Roman Catholics since 1994, including the Official Catholic Directory of Traditional Latin Masses.
http://www.traditio.com/
Eight-Balls
Famous Rock-Band from Germany
http://www.eight-balls.de/
SANTA FE BOOKS
BOOKS IS SPANISH
http://www.santafebooks.com/
juergen peiffer
Allround Drummer from Germany. Living close to cologne. check him out!
http://www.juergenpeiffer.de/
The International Dance Council (CID, UNESCO)
- The International Dance Council (CID) is the official umbrella organization for all forms of dance in all countries of the world. - It is a non-profit non-governmental organization founded in 1973 within the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. - It is a worldwide forum bringing together international, national and local organizations as well as select individuals active in dance. - It represents the art of dance in general and advises the UNESCO, national and local government agencies, international organizations and institutions. Headquarters CID, UNESCO, Paris, France
http://www.cid-unesco.org/
GB5 - Gutierrez Brothers
Christian Latin R&B Group :: 5 brothers based out of Southern California. Visit their website for more info: www.gb5online.com
http://www.gb5online.com
Nicola Boschetti - Independent Composer & Guitarist
Welcome to the official website of composer, arranger and guitarist Nicola Boschetti. Here, you will find Boschetti’s biography, as well as information about his music and his albums. Boschetti’s style is an eclectic fusion of funk, jazz, and latin. His latest accomplishment is a collection of acoustic guitar arpeggios.
http://www.nicolaboschetti.com/
Soulsa
Soulsa is a Latin band from New York City that fuses Rock with Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican percussion.
http://www.soulsaband.com/
Sabor Latino
latin music
http://www.saborlatino.nl/
School Classics Project
The School Classics Project creates print, audio and electronic resources for teachers and students of the Classical world. Its storytelling materials enable primary teachers to meet literacy targets in speaking and listening. Its <i>Cambridge Latin Course</i> is the leading Latin course in the UK, and is supported by thousands of interactive activities.
http://www.cambridgescp.com/
PhotoSalsa
The Latin American dance (salsa, merengue, bachata) picture gallery by the professional photographer Anjelika Danyushina.
http://www.photosalsa.com/
The Dance Store Ballroom Videos
The Dance Store sells instructional videos for ballroom, Latin, and country-western dancing. They also have an extensive learning center that has many free online streaming videos that show basics in each dance.
http://www.thedancestoreonline.com/
Royal Groove Webradio
A weekly mix of jazz, soul, funk, rare grooves, Brazilian flavours, easy listening, soundtracks and nu sounds, hosted by DeLuca.
http://www.royalgroove.org/
CIUDAD (Urban Vision Entertainment)
A line of high-quality Spanish language film originating from Mexico, Spain, Colombia, and Venezuela. Stars include Penelope Cruz, Demian Bichir, Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Bruno Bichir, Claudia Ramirez, Daniel Jimenez Cacho, Carmen Maura, and Pilar Lopez de Ayala.
http://www.ciudadmovies.com/
DanceMakers of Texas
We are Fort Worth's premier school of social and competition dance. We focus on private lessons where you learn fundamental dancing skills along with leading and following, and the technique to dance your favorite dances with confidence and style. We teach all partner dances including social and competitive country western, ballroom, latin, jitterbug, salsa, tango and much more! Our Friday night party is open to the public and includes a free half hour group class in a diferent style each week. Join us 8:30pm to 11:00pm Fridays. $7 cover charge, no smoking, byob. Our beautiful ballroom is also available for weddings and parties. We are located on the west side of Fort Worth on the corner of Camp Bowie and Las Vegas Trail. Any questions? call 817-244-8500
http://www.dancemakers.com/
General Dance Infos
Personal Website
http://www.soria-wolf.de/
BLACK CACO
latin urban indie label,who sound its a mix of today urban scene with a mix latin music
http://www.blackcaco.com/
El Canillita
Free weekly spanish newspaper in Connecticut covering the cities of Bridgeport, Danbury, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain, New Haven, Norwalk, Stamford and Waterbury.
http://www.elcanillita.com/
Tantsuklubi Leevi
LEEVI: Dance @ Leevi, Read Ballroom Dancing News about Warren & Kristi Boyce and danceclub students @ TK leevi.co.uk Dance Club
http://www.leevi.ee/
SalsaNation
Dancing Salsa throughout Ireland
http://www.salsanation.net/
manteca the band for Latin and Groove-Music
Unser Name “Manteca“ deutet es schon an: Latin und Groove stehen im Vordergrund. Unsere Musik ist eingängig und authentisch, deshalb spricht sie ein breites Publikum an und sorgt spontan für entspannte Stimmung und gute Laune. Wir spielen Standards, aber auch weniger bekannte Titel aus dem “Amerikan Song Book” sowie Afro/Cuban und Brazilian Music.
http://www.mantecamusic.de/
Pro Latin: Latin at school and university
Latin news, learning games, exercises, suggestions, tips, translations, help, grammar, literature, texts, links, quiz, webquests...
http://www.prolatein.de/latin.html
Nice n Easy Dance Studios
Nice n Easy Dance Studios, the top dance club in the south! Best for ballroom in Bournemouth! Strictly Come Dancing and join the fun!
http://www.danceniceneasy.com/
Calle Cinco
Latin American Festival every September in downtown Charlotte.
http://www.callecinco.com/
Salsalogy - Türkiye'nin Salsa Portalı
Türkiye'deki tüm dans geceleri dans eğitmenler, dans tartışmaları, partner ilanları, eleştiriler, müzik, video linkleri.
http://www.salsalogy.com/
Vocke und Haagen Musikagentur
Hier finden Sie Künstlervermittlung, individuelle Spezialprogramme und Infotainmentshows budgetgerecht und zielorientiert.
http://www.vocke-haagen-musikagentur.com
Il Portale della Valle del Sele
Sito di riferimento nella valle del sele per cultura, turismo, e tecnologie...
http://www.colliano.com/
Basslines, Music & More
Andreas Reinhard: Bassist aus NRW für Live, Studio, Teaching, Touring. Homepage mit Infos, Terminen, Bands und Kontakt
http://www.andreas-reinhard.de/
The University of Notre Dame
An independent, national Catholic university located at Notre Dame, Indiana, adjacent to the city of South Bend and approximately 90 miles southeast of Chicago.
http://www.nd.edu/
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
Latin American information resource based on a country by country or subject by subject search.
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz
The William P. Gottlieb Collection comprises of over 1600 photographs of celebrated American jazz artists.
http://memory.loc.gov//ammem/wghtml/wghome.html
Georgetown University
Founded in 1789 and the nation's oldest Catholic and Jesuit university. Describes the campus community, services for students, alumni, courses, and admissions.
http://www.georgetown.edu/
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