Roman+Languages

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1. Questions:
 * I wonder if the Romans spoke more than one language?
 * I wonder if the Romans understood most of what they were saying?
 * I wonder if they could speak an other language and not know it?

= = =2. Inferences:=
 * I think many people still have trouble speaking roman today beacuse back in the middle ages, Roman was the not the only language that was taught.
 * I think the Romans were also taught how to speak Latin, French, English and German.
 * I think most children had a diffecult time learning the languages because there were more than one language to speak.

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 * Latin Literature
 * Forum Romanum
 * Wikipedia Search
 * Crystalinks
 * History of Latin and Roman

= = =4. Summary:=
 * The Roman language was thought to be a similar way of Greek communication.Vulgar Latin was one of the first dialects to influence Roman languages.Roman Languages were descended from Latin such as Catalan, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish.Between the 16th and 18th century, English writers discovered a sudden connection between the Latin and Greek dialects.Most Latin language goes back to the Roman Catholic Church and the Roman Empire.The Roman and Latin languages might go back as far as 280-240 B.C.E., And might be as old as 100,000,000,000 years old.

= = =5. Reference: Roman languages were often thought as lyrics to poems and stories about men giving up their lives for women they loved. This tombstone has Roman words engraved in it that tells a poem about that basic topic.= == = =