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Episode CVIII - A Lesson in Latin II

Emperors of Rome

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Did Latin Borrow From Other Languages the Way English Does?

A lot of the ancient greek that ends up in english comes via latin. The romans thought carthaginian was a weird sounding language. There are words for involved in religious ritual from etruscan. What we have in latin is probably a fraction of what was actually spoken, or even written latin as we've lost so much of it.

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