Ecclesiastical Latin; Church Latin, Liturgical Latin: Native to: Never spoken as a native language; other uses vary widely by period and location: Extinct

The Pronunciation of Classical Latin The circumflex accent ( ˆ ) is used to denote the length of the vowels. Evidence for pronunciation of Classical Latin …

Bible Words, Phonetic Pronunciation, Including Historical and Other Related Words

Brief definitions of obscure words starting with the letter X

Jan 09, 2018 · regnum in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language . And next year’s words await another voice.” ― T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets . AudioEloquence

Latin spelling, or Latin orthography, is the spelling of Latin words written in the scripts of all historical phases of Latin from Old Latin to the present. All scripts use the same alphabet, but conventional spellings may vary from phase to phase.

Mexican Spanish Pronunciation Guide ©2005 David W. Bodwell, reproduced here with permission. Spanish is a nearly perfectly phonetic language, i.e., each letter is always pronounced exactly the same.

Words from Latin. No language has been more influential in the development of English than Latin. There are two reasons for this. First, when the French conquered England in 1066, their language was very similar to Latin, and French remained England’s official language for 200 years.

Latin Pronunciation Guide Latin may be a dead language but it is very much alive when you read it and speak it. It lives in the echo of the words that were spoken long ago by the great men of Ancient Rome.