
Latin is an Italic language historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome, which spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe with the expansion of the Roman Empire. After the Empire’s decline, Latin survived as the lingua franca of educated classes in the West, which was made possible, in part, by Latin’s adoption by the Catholic Church. In the form of Medieval Latin, the language survived as a mother tongue at least into the second millennium AD, after which it was brief...
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