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Topic: Faliscan language


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  Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Catholic Church used Latin as its primary liturgical language until the advent of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, after which it was largely replaced by the various vernacular languages of the parishioners.
Latin is a member of the family of Italic languages, and its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, is based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the Greek alphabet.
Many international auxiliary languages have been heavily influenced by Latin, and the moderately successful Interlingua is a modernized and simplified version of the language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Latin_language   (2302 words)

  
 Latin - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
Moreover, in the Western world, Latin was a lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, being eventually replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th.
Latin is a synthetic inflectional language: affixes (which most times encode more than one grammatical category) are attached to fixed stems to express gender, number, and case in adjectives, nouns, and pronouns, which is called declension; and person, number, tense, voice, mood, and aspect in verbs, which is called conjugation.
Many would-be international auxiliary languages have been heavily influenced by Latin, and the moderately successful Interlingua considers itself to be the modernized and simplified version of the language (le latino moderne international e simplificate).
www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/l/a/t/Latin.html   (1543 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Italian language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Italian language ITALIAN LANGUAGE [Italian language] member of the Romance group of the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Romance languages).
It is the language of one of the major civilizations of the world and of one of the greatest literatures of all time.
Italic languages ITALIC LANGUAGES [Italic languages] subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/06515.html   (716 words)

  
 Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : O
Old Italic The script of some ancient dialects of Central Italy, which are a subdivision of the western group of Indo-European languages spoken in Italy.
Although bit-map data can be used to produce such shapes, object-oriented instructions produce shapes which are limited in resolution only by the electrical or mechanical nature of the output device, and not by the contents of the font file itself.
Such fonts are written using a printer description language, such as PostScript.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/o.htm   (3849 words)

  
 Sources for the Numbers List
This page gives the sources for each language on the Numbers from 1 to 10 page.
Sometimes half the work in dealing with a new language is finding out what it is, and relating it to the sometimes wildly varying classifications from Ruhlen, Voegelin, and the Ethnologue.
There are notes relating to this, as well as information on dialects, and names of languages I don't have yet.
www.zompist.com /sources.htm   (2727 words)

  
 lat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fonts ParaType help info Short brief about Turkmen language within scope Fonts.
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Central familycolor Indo European fam Italic fam Latino Faliscan
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