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Name five languages that are spoken today that developed from Latin?
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French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and English
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How many languages are spoken today?
There are roughly 6,500 languages spoken today!
Which among Latin Greek and Tamil is said to be the best why?
Latin and Greek meet the international classical languages as they have epics and meet the other requirements. However, I say Tamil is the best because it is one of the very few ancient languages that has survived and still spoken by millions of common people today. Latin/Greek and Sanskrit are dead languages and are not spoken by commoners today.
What are the spoken languages of Latin?
There are 47 Romance languages spoken today. The some examples are: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalán, Occitan, Galician, Aragonese, Romansh, Ladino, and Walloon.
Why dont people speak Latin?
Because several modern languages have evolved from Latin over the centuries and they are the languages spoken in Europe today. But Latin is still in use in the Vatican, and is used as a reference language in, for example scientific classification.
What are Romance languages?
Romance languages are languages descending from vulgar Latin. Some of them are completely extinct, others are still spoken today, either as a first or second language.The most common Romance languages are:FrenchItalianPortugueseRomanianSpanishHere is a more complete list of modern Romance languages:AragoneseAsturianCatalanCorsicanEmilianFranco-ProvencalFrenchGalicianItalianJudaeo-Spanish (Ladino)LeoneseMilaneseMirandeseNeapolitanOccitanPicardPiedmontesePortugueseRomanianRomanshSardinianSicilianSpanishVenetianWalloon
What languages were spoken in World War 2?
The same languages spoken today were spoken in World War 2.
What is Rome's Language?
Latin was the language of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire. Today Italian is spoken in Rome and throughout Italy. Italian is one of the Romance languages, one of the languages strongly rooted in Latin and that could be considered to be modern forms of Latin..
Was french Introduced by the Romans?
The Romans spoke Latin. As with most languages of the time, there was a vulgar, or spoken Latin used by the common people. It varied in all the different areas of the Roman Empire. The Gauls or French had their own version of Latin that eventually became the French we know today. Proper Latin, even on the Italian peninsula became the Italian language. The pure Latin language was left to the chucch and legal documents. The common Roman heritage of these languages is why they are referred to as Romance languages. (French, Spanish, Italian, Portugese, and Romanian are Romance languages spoken today)
What language was Spoken by commoners?
If you're referring to Western Europe, the languages spoken by commoners are the languages that are spoken in Europe today. The nobility generally spoke Latin--Greek if they were very educated--and later French, but the commoners tended to speak whatever language was native to that region.
Which ancient alphabet forms the basis for the majority of modern languages in use today?
The Phoenician alphabet, from which the Greek and Latin alphabets were developed.
What are the 10 oldest living languages?
This is a difficult question, as most living languages today have developed out of other languages, making them extremely old. There are newer languages, but most of the major languages spoken today are very old. Read more here: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1g2b90/to_the_best_of_our_knowledge_what_is_the_oldest/
How many languages do we have in the wold?
There are between 3000-6000 languages spoken today.
