Latin: Story of a World Language

by Kenneth Kronenberg (Author), Jürgen Leonhardt (Author)

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The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this dead language is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first world language , from antiquity to the present.

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The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Jurgen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language", from antiquity to the present.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 06 May 2016
ISBN 10: 0674659961
ISBN 13: 9780674659964

Latin: Story of a World Language

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