Latin is an very old and culturally important language, it is useful in the study of Classics.

There are three common forms of Latin learned and studied today.

Classical is the most common, it is the version used in education, examinations and in the subject "Classics"; it is reconstructed from Roman literature. Second is ecclesiastical Latin which is the Latin used in Catholic liturgy and spoken in the Vatican; it is grammatically classical but has significantly different phonology. Vulgate Latin is used exclusively to understand the Vulgate Bible and other pre-medieval historical sources.

Phonology Edit

Reconstructed Classical Latin has five vowels a, o, u, i and e. A is pronounced somewhat like a in art, o as in torn,, u as o in who but little more open, i like ee in see and e like e in end.

Grammar Edit

MorphologyEdit

Latin is a language that is very inflection rich and will take alot of time to lean properly.

NounsEdit

Five declensions.

AdjectivesEdit

VerbsEdit

Four conjugations.

SyntaxEdit

Orthography Edit

Common difficulties Edit

• Speaking extinct languages requires more direction than living ones.
• Many inflections.

Resources Edit

• Latin @ en.wikipedia.org
• The Latin Library
• The Latin Wikipedia
• Latin @ wikibooks
• Latinium - Latin learning pod-cast
• Online Dictionary
• Latin Online @ The university of Texas
• Latin the easy way
• Google in latin
• Ephemeris radio
• Latin poetry pod-cast
• Latin audio and video
• Perseus latin-English texts
• Latin @ Textkit.com
• YLE Radio1's Nuntii Latini
• Latin audio @ SORGLL
• Wilfried Stroh Reads in Latin Virgil's The Aeneid, Book IV
• Radio Bremen's Nuntii Latini
• Beginner's Latin lessons
• Advanced Latin lessons

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