How Latin Became The Romance Languages

How Latin Became The Romance Languages

Patrick Wyman1/05/18 12:18pm

The Latin language is one of the Roman Empire’s lasting legacies. We hear it around us every day in the form of direct Latin loan-words into English, like “abdomen” or “exterior.” Every time you say something is “necessary” or you need to make a “revision” to a document, you’re using a loan-word from French, which ultimately derives from Latin as

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