The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
Is Latin really dead?
The Five-Minute Linguist - Bite-sized Essays on Language and Languages Second Edition - E.M. Rickerson
Frank Morris [+]
College of Charleston
Frank Morris earned a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Cincinnati and taught Latin and Greek at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC from 1978 until his retirement in 2010. He continues to serve as Director of the Charleston Latin Program, and has been training teachers to teach Latin in elementary schools since the mid-1980s.
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Although it is mostly agreed that Latin is vital only for specialized historians and philologists and archaeologists, about 80 percent of the words in Italian, Spanish, French, and Portuguese are inherited from Latin.