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A natural history of Latin /
Latin is alive and well. Beginning in Rome around 600 BC it became the international language of the civilized world for 2,000 years. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants. It provides the vocabulary for law and life science. No known language, including English - i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Swedish |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Latin is alive and well. Beginning in Rome around 600 BC it became the international language of the civilized world for 2,000 years. French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian are among its direct descendants. It provides the vocabulary for law and life science. No known language, including English - itself enriched by Latin words and phrases - has achieved such success and longevity. This book tells its history from origins to the present. Brilliantly conceived, popularizing but. authoritative, and written with the fluency and light touch that have made the author's Speak so attractive to tens o. |
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| Notas: | Translation of: Latin : kulturen, historien, språket. Stockholm : Wahlström and Widstrand, 2002. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-299) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781429470681 1429470682 9780199263097 0199263094 9780191532382 019153238X 9786610756599 6610756597 |