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The Latin it is one of the oldest languages ​​on planet earth with an italic branch, was widely used in the Ancient Rome and belongs to the familylinguistics Indo-European. It should be noted that the use of the Latin language was not limited to antiquity, far from it, since later, in the Middle Ages, in the next Modern age and even today, in the contemporary stage he keeps talking about it. For example, today the Vatican City has as language official Latin and in the Catolic religion, Latin turns out to be the liturgical language.

The fabulous expansion achieved by Rome In ancient times it made Latin, the official language of the empire, also spread throughout the rest of Europe and even Africa northern, catching up with the Greek language.

Among the most salient characteristics of Latin is its character as an inflectional language that includes a lot of information in both suffixes and prefixes, based on the inflection of some terms.

On the other hand, Latin has been the

kick-off of much of the so-called Romance languages (they evolved from vulgar Latin), such as: Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Aragonese, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Dalmatian.

Meanwhile, Latin has several and transcendent uses today, in the most recent and most remote past, being the language official of the Vatican City and the liturgical language of the Catholic religion, are added: to name binary names at the request of the classification scientific, both animal and plant (biological taxonomy), to designate figures and institutions belonging to right, in articles of scientific journals, appearing fully expressed in this language or in a partial and in studies corresponding to the philological, philosophical, literary, historical, legal and linguistic.

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