LatinHarvard University Press, 12. stu 2013. - Broj stranica: 349 The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present. |
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1 Latin as a World Language | 1 |
2 The Language of the Empire | 41 |
3 Europes Latin Millennium | 122 |
4 World Language without a World | 245 |
5 Latin Today | 277 |
Notes | 295 |
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