HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
Question
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sign language
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vernacular (common spoken language)
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Latin
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Cunieform
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Detailed explanation-1: -Latin and ancient Greek were studied by many Renaissance scholars. A knowledge of these two languages was considered to be the mark of a good education.
Detailed explanation-2: -Written vernaculars increased enormously in use during the Renaissance. They also became objects of scholarship and debate. While modern linguistics looks back to the 19th century for its professional origins, Renaissance humanists began to develop systematic approaches to language study much earlier.
Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest known vernacular manuscript in Scanian (Danish, c. 1250). It deals with Scanian and Scanian Ecclesiastical Law. An allegory of rhetoric and arithmetic, Trinci Palace, Foligno, Italy, by Gentile da Fabriano, who lived in the era of Italian language standardization.
Detailed explanation-4: -The English Renaissance, an era of cultural revival and poetic evolution starting in the late 15th century and spilling into the revolutionary years of the 17th century, stands as an early summit of poetry achievement, the era in which the modern sense of English poetry begins.
Detailed explanation-5: -Troubadour poetry and the Heroic Poem were popular forms of vernacular literature.