Eurolatin
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| Eurolatin | |
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| Eurolatinus (sermo); Eurolatina (lingua) | |
| Pronunciation | [[Help:IPA|[[ɛu̯rola'ti:nʊs]; [ɛu̯rola'ti:na]]]] |
| Created by | – |
Indo-European
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-1 | et |
| ISO 639-2 | eut |
| ISO 639-3 | eut |
General information
Eurolatin or Eurolatinus is an auxiliary language invented by Llyn as European Lingua Franca. Latin has been one of the most important languages ever spoken in Europe until XVIII century. Many English words have a Latin origin and, through English, many Latin words have spread in modern European languages, such as: habitat, virus, nation, sympathy, idea (of Greek origin), and so forth. Medical terms of European languages are mainly from Latin and Ancient Greek and so are many legal terms. Latin has also influenced German, Celtic languages, and, slightly also Scandinavian languages and Slavic languages. In any way Latin isn't a simple language (even if it is no harder than other modern inflected languages) and its crystallized grammatical norms have closed it off from other evolving European languages: they have prevented it from moving with the times. It is also because of this that Romanic languages have developed. Llyn has thought to "modernizing" Classical Latin with grammatical and lexical features of modern European languages - not only from Romanic languages, but also from Germanic ones - to make it more "usable" and "simple".
Phonology
During the time every country has adapted Latin pronunciation to its official language's sounds, for example the sentence:
- Caesar vincit inimicos - Caesar defeats the enemies
can be pronounced differently:
- ['tʃɛ:sar 'vintʃit ini'mi:kos] in Italy;
- ['si:zɐ 'vɪnsɪt ɪnɪ'mikəs] in UK;
- ['θɛsaɾ 'binsit ini'mikos] in Spain;
- ['tse:zɐ 'vintsit ini'mi:kos] in Germany
and so on. To use Eurolatin in the whole Europe and to be understood and to understand other people it must be established a univocal pronunciation. The pronunciation of Eurolatin is based on the restituta pronunciation of Classical Latin with other sounds taken from Modern or Ancient Greek.
Alphabet
Eurolatin alphabet has got 24 letters: