Latin and the Roman Languages

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Greek Influence on Latin Alphabet
Greek Alphabet
A B C D E F Z H I K L M N O P Q R
S T V X C stood for g I stood for both i and
j V stood for both u and w
Original Latin Alphabet
Link to Latin and English translations of same
text
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Latin and the Romance Languages
All Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin
(common speech), the language of soldiers,
settlers and merchants of the Roman Empire, which
was significantly different from the Classical
Latin of Roman literati (intellectuals).
Proportion of the 690 million native Romance
language speakers contained by each language