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Encore: How Latin Became the Romance Languages

Tides of History

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The Inscriptions of the Roman Empire

Inscriptions are common all over the roman empire. They can tell us a bit about regular speech, but not as much as scholars used to think. Scholars have carefully studied all this evidence and they've come up with some really interesting key points. When we put all this together, what do we learn? We learn that latin did vary from social group to social group and place to place.

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