The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages

ablative accent addition American ancient appears Appendix Arabic become beginning borrowed called century Christian Classical Latin closed consonant continued countries cultural Dacia definite described dialects diphthong documents earlier early Empire English evidence fact fall final France function German give Greek groups historical Iberian indicate Indo-European influence initial inscriptions interest Italian Italy lands later linguistic literary meaning million native nature nominative northern nouns object official Old French Opposite original palatalization particularly period person plural popular Portuguese position present pronounced Provençal remained replaced represents rise Romance languages Rome Rumanian separate short shows singular sound Spain Spanish speak speakers speech spoken standard stressed structure syllable texts third tion tongue turned universal unstressed variety verb voiced vowel Vulgar Latin West Western words writing