Latin
Classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Extinct language
Language that no longer has any speakers, especially if the language has no living descendants.
In contrast, a dead language is one that is no longer the native language of any community, even if it is still in use, like Latin.
Latium
Region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome was founded and grew to be the capital city of the Roman Empire.
The modern descendant, the Italian Regione of Lazio, also called Latium in Latin, and occasionally in modern English, is somewhat larger still, though less than twice the size of Latium vetus et adiectum, including a large area of ancient Southern Etruria and Sabina.
Latin alphabet
The Latin alphabet or Roman alphabet is the collection of letters originally used by the ancient Romans to write the Latin language and its extensions used to write modern languages.
Dialect
The term dialect (from Latin, , from the Ancient Greek word , 'discourse', from , 'through' and , 'I speak') can refer to either of two distinctly different types of linguistic phenomena:
Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the form of Latin language recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire.
Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin, also known as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is non-literary Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onwards.
Late Latin
Late Latin (Latinitas serior) is the scholarly name for the written Latin of late antiquity.
Grammatical tense
Category that expresses time reference.
Expressions of tense are often closely connected with expressions of the category of aspect; sometimes what are traditionally called tenses (in languages such as Latin) may in modern analysis be regarded as combinations of tense with aspect.
Grammatical aspect
Grammatical category that expresses how an action, event, or state, denoted by a verb, extends over time.
Aspectual distinctions may be restricted to certain tenses: in Latin and the Romance languages, for example, the perfective–imperfective distinction is marked in the past tense, by the division between preterites and imperfects.
Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.