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Latin

Latin

Summary

Latin was spoken by the ancient Romans and used as a lingua franca throughout the Roman Empire. It is the predecessor of the Romance languages and has had a profound influence on Western culture, law, and science. Written in the Latin alphabet, Latin grammar features a highly inflected structure with cases for nouns, verb conjugations that denote tense, mood, and voice, and a free word order.

Stats

  • Language Family: Indo-European

  • Writing System: Latin

  • Writing System Type: Alphabet

  • Writing Direction: L to R

  • Tones / Pitch Accent: N

  • Morphology: Fusional

  • Cases: 6

  • Grammatical Gender / Noun Class: 3

  • Number of Verb Tenses: 6

  • Word Order: Free

  • Number of Vowels (Monophthongs): 10

  • Number of Consonants: 15

Areas Where Spoken

  • Vatican City (official) (liturgical)

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