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What country speaks Latin as official language?
Only one country: the Vatican city (it is a city-state), like an enclave within Italy. Its official language is Latin (specifically, Ecclesiastical Latin), but its de facto language is Italian.
Is Russian Balto Slavic?
The Balto-Slavic languages are a branch of the Indo-European family of languages. It traditionally comprises the Baltic and Slavic languages….Balto-Slavic languages.
| Balto-Slavic | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Northern Europe, Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Southeast Europe, North Asia, parts of Central Asia |
How to count in Latin (Lingua Latina)?
How to count in Latin (lingua Latina) with cardinal and ordinal numbers. Key to abbreviations: m = masculine, f = feminine, n = neuter If any of the numbers are links, you can hear a recording by clicking on them. If you can provide recordings, please contact me .
What is the difference between Oscan and Latin?
Although similar to Latin, Oscan shows a series of different sound shifts (Oscan aasa: Latin āra “altar”; Oscan pid: Latin quid “what”), and a divergent vocabulary. Before Latin spread out, Oscan was the most widely spoken group of dialects of the Apennine Peninsula.
What is the Oscan language?
Before Latin spread out, Oscan was the most widely spoken group of dialects of the Apennine Peninsula. Oscan was the name given by the Romans to a group of dialects spoken by Samnite tribes to the south of Rome.
What happened to the Oscan alphabet?
Oscan was gradually displaced by Latin and apparently became completely extinct by the end of the 1st century ad. Modern knowledge of Oscan comes from some 250 documents and inscriptions written in several alphabets: a rustic or colonial Latin alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and a native alphabet derived from Etruscan.