The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages

accent accusative adjective American ancient appears Appendix Arabic Basque become borrowed Castilian Catalan century A.D. Charlemagne Christian Classical Latin consonant countries cultural Dacia declension diphthong documents Empire English Etruscan fall of final feminine France Gaul genitive German grammatical Greek groups guage historical Iberian Iberian peninsula indicate Indo-European Indo-European languages inflected influence initial inscriptions intervocalic Italy later Latin-Romance linguistic literary loan words Mario Pei masculine meaning medieval million modern nasal native nominative northern nouns official Old French original Oscan palatalization peninsula period phonetic plosive plural popular Portuguese position Post-Classical praised pronounced pronunciation proparoxytones Provençal Rheto-Rumansh Roland Romance languages Rome Rumanian Sardinian semivowel short Sicily singular Slavic sound Spain Spanish speakers speech spoken stressed vowels structure survive syllable Synonym tense texts tion tongue unstressed unvoiced velar verb Visigoths vocabulary vocal voiced Vulgar Latin Western writing