How was the writing system used in ancient Rome?

Answer 1

Not only did all of the Romance languages evolve from Latin, but in the 19th century, some English grammarians decided that Latin was the perfect language and decided to rewrite the rules of English to make it more like Latin. So, such rules as not putting prepositions at the ends of sentences and not splitting infinitives (though that one does get disregarded in more poetic English. Star Trek wouldn't be the same without it) come straight out of Latin.

Generally, with Romance languages and English, that which is considered to be better grammar is more closely related to Latin.

Answer 2

ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.

Answer 3

In ancient Rome the primary language was Latin, but many scholars used both Greek and Latin in their work.

The Latin alphabet was derived from the Cumaean alphabet, a variant of the western Greek alphabet which came from the Greek city of Cumae near Naples that was adopted and adapted by the Italic peoples. Archaic Latin adopted 21 of the 26 letters that the Etruscans had adapted from the Cumanean alphabet. Some of these letters would be unrecognisable to us, but then developed into the form which is familiar to us. Later, classical Latin introduced two more letters. The alphabet of modern western European languages is derived from the classical Latin alphabet. Some have added extra letters, some have eliminated some letters.

Answer 4

The alphabets of western European languages were adapted from the Latin alphabet. The Romans were Latins. Therefore, they used the Latin alphabet. There was not such a thing as a Roman alphabet.

Answer 5

Ancient Rome's writing system has a very small impact on our present day writing system. We use the same alphabet in the west, and that's about all. The Roman abbreviations are different than ours and sentences and paragraphs tend to be different in the sense that they all seem to run together.