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| '''Latin''' is the ancestor of all ], and was originally spoken only in the region around ] called Latium. | '''Latin''' is the ancestor of all ], and was originally spoken only in the region around ] called Latium. | ||
| The main difference between Latin and Romance is that Romance had distinctive stress whereas Latin had distinctive length of vowels. | The main difference between Latin and Romance is that Romance had distinctive stress whereas Latin had distinctive length of vowels. | ||
| In Italian and Sardo loguodorese, there is distinctive length of consonants and stress, in Castilian only distinctive stress, and in French even stress is no longer distinctive. | In Italian and Sardo loguodorese, there is distinctive length of consonants and stress, in Castilian only distinctive stress, and in French even stress is no longer distinctive. | ||
| Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that Romance languages lost the case endings. | Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that Romance languages lost the case endings. | ||
| ⚫ | Latin has an extensive flectional system, which mainly operates by appending endings to a fixed stem. Inflection of nouns and adjectives is called declension, and of verbs, conjugation. | ||
| ⚫ | Latin has an extensive flectional system, which mainly operates by appending endings to a fixed stem. Inflection of nouns and adjectives is called declension, and of verbs, conjugation. There are 5 declensions of nouns, and 4 conjugations for verbs. The 6 noun forms are nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative. | ||
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| See also ], ], ], ]. | See also ], ], ], ]. | ||
Revision as of 02:45, 8 December 2001
Latin is the ancestor of all Romance languages, and was originally spoken only in the region around Rome called Latium.
The main difference between Latin and Romance is that Romance had distinctive stress whereas Latin had distinctive length of vowels.
In Italian and Sardo loguodorese, there is distinctive length of consonants and stress, in Castilian only distinctive stress, and in French even stress is no longer distinctive.
Another major distinction between Romance and Latin is that Romance languages lost the case endings.
Latin has an extensive flectional system, which mainly operates by appending endings to a fixed stem. Inflection of nouns and adjectives is called declension, and of verbs, conjugation. There are 5 declensions of nouns, and 4 conjugations for verbs. The 6 noun forms are nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative.
See also Latin literature, Latin proverbs, Roman, New Latin.