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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
'''Eurolatin''' or '''Eurolatinus''' is an auxiliary language invented by | '''Eurolatin''' or '''Eurolatinus''' is an auxiliary language invented by Llais 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'' (of Greek origin), ''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. | 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. | 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. | ||
Llais 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". This Latin, anyway, is based mainly on Romanic languages, terms that comes from "Vulgar Latin" are thus preferred, ex.: | |||
{| {{Table/bluetable}} style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle" | |||
!'''Classical Latin''' | |||
!'''Vulgar Latin''' | |||
!'''Eurolatin''' | |||
!'''Spanish''' | |||
!'''Portuguese''' | |||
!'''French''' | |||
!'''Italian''' | |||
!'''Catalan''' | |||
!'''Galician''' | |||
!'''Rumanian''' | |||
!'''English''' | |||
|- | |||
|iecur | |||
|ficātum | |||
|fícatum | |||
|hígado | |||
|fígado | |||
|fois | |||
|fegato | |||
|fetge | |||
|fígado | |||
|ficat | |||
|liver | |||
|} | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||