HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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many people enjoy watching comic plays.
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modern languages are easy to learn.
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many people travel to Rome for vacation.
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modern languages are based on the Roman language.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Because Latin was the usual language for any scholarly, legal, or scientific activity, and because English (unlike, for example, French) has no qualms about borrowing words from other languages, English speakers borrowed Latin words wholesale. About one-half of the words in modern English have been borrowed from Latin.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Romance languages are a group of related languages all derived from Vulgar Latin within historical times and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Romanian.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Latin alphabet that developed gradually was adopted from the Greek and spread throughout the Roman Empire-to northern and western Europe. We still use it today! Most people in Rome didn’t go to school and didn’t learn to read and write.
Detailed explanation-4: -The modern Romance languages developed from the spoken Latin of various parts of the Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.