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'''Latin''' is an ancient [[Indo-European language]] that was originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding [[Rome]]. It gained wide currency, especially in [[Europe]], as the official language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. Principally through the influence of the Church, it became the language of later medieval European scholars and philosophers. Because Latin is a highly inflectional and [[synthetic]] language, word order is to some extent variable, compared with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns, although in prose the Romans tended to favor a SOV word order. [[Syntax]] is revealed through a systemic structure of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the [[Etruscan]] and [[Greek]] [[alphabets]] (''each of which is derived from the earlier [[Phoenician]] alphabet'' see: [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper74.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper74.html&line=45#mfs], [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper66.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper66.html&line=110#mfs], [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper76.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper76.html&line=70#mfs], and [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper44.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper44.html&line=123#mfs]
'''Latin''' is an ancient [[Indo-European language]] that was originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding [[Rome]]. It gained wide currency, especially in [[Europe]], as the official language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and, after Rome's conversion to Christianity, of the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. Principally through the influence of the Church, it became the language of later medieval European scholars and philosophers. Because Latin is a highly inflectional and [[synthetic]] language, word order is to some extent variable, compared with mostly [[analytic]] languages such as English, which has lost the ancient noun-case system inherited from [[Proto-Indo-European]] except in pronouns, although in prose the Romans tended to favor a SOV word order. [[Syntax]] is revealed through a systemic structure of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from the [[Etruscan]] and [[Greek]] [[alphabets]] (''each of which is derived from the earlier [[Phoenician]] alphabet''
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The Dravidians were among the earliest peoples to build cities and to engage in an extensive export and import business, both by land and sea. By 7000 B.C. camel trains were making regular trips to distant Mesopotamia; Dravidian shipping was pushing coastwise across the Arabian Sea to the Sumerian cities of the Persian Gulf and was venturing on the waters of the Bay of Bengal as far as the East Indies. An alphabet, together with the art of writing, was imported from Sumeria by these seafarers and merchants.[http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper79.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper79.html&line=73#mfs]
see: [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper74.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper74.html&line=45#mfs], [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper66.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper66.html&line=110#mfs], [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper76.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper76.html&line=70#mfs], and [http://www.urantia.org/cgi-bin/webglimpse/mfs/usr/local/www/data/papers?link=http://mercy.urantia.org/papers/paper44.html&file=/usr/local/www/data/papers/paper44.html&line=123#mfs]
remains the most widely used in the world.
remains the most widely used in the world.
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Although now generally considered a dead language, of few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin is still used by the Catholic Church. It has greatly influenced many living languages, including English, and is a source of vocabulary for science, academia, and law. Vulgar Latin, a dialect of Latin, is the ancestor of the [[Romance]] languages ([[Italian]], [[French]], [[Spanish]], [[Portuguese]], [[Romanian]], [[Catalan]], [[Romansh]], and other regional languages or [[dialects]] from the same area), and many words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including [[English]], half of whose vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly, from Latin. Latin's influence attests to its legacy as the lingua franca of the Western world for over a thousand years.
Although now generally considered a dead language, of few fluent speakers and no native ones, Latin is still used by the Catholic Church. It has greatly influenced many living languages, including English, and is a source of vocabulary for science, academia, and law. Vulgar Latin, a dialect of Latin, is the ancestor of the [[Romance]] languages ([[Italian]], [[French]], [[Spanish]], [[Portuguese]], [[Romanian]], [[Catalan]], [[Romansh]], and other regional languages or [[dialects]] from the same area), and many words adapted from Latin are found in other modern languages—including [[English]], half of whose vocabulary is derived, directly or indirectly, from Latin. Latin's influence attests to its legacy as the lingua franca of the Western world for over a thousand years.
