Бегущая по волнам писал(а):
sLOGOSemya писал(а):
Кстати, я приводил как-то выдержку из книжицы "
languAGES OF The WORlD",
где говорилось,
что вначале в "латинском языке" звук "
эр" записывался знаком
Ри только позже был заменён на знак
R.
да.. насчёт замены Р на R интересно , теперь это запомню..
Если раньше ты писал это, то как-то не отложилось , поскольку ни чему не цеплялось).
Не нашёл сходу (хотя и порылся чуток), где в дискуссиях уже упоминал эту выдержку из книги,
поэтому повторюсь.
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"The Languages of the World."
Kenneth Katzner. ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL
London and New York (c) 1977, 1986
ISBN 0-7102-0861-8
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IatiN
«
Latin, the language of ancient
Rome, is the ancestor of the modern Romance languages. Beginnings as a local dialect of a small village on the
Tiber River,
it spread in the course of history over a large portion of the globe. In the Middle Ages Latin served as the international medium of communications, as well as the language of science, philosophy, and theology. Until comparatively recent times a knowledge of Latin was an essential prerequisite to any liberal education; only in this century has the study of Latin declined and emphasis shifted to the modern living languages. The Roman Catholic Church has traditionally used Latin as its official and liturgical language.
Latin was brought to the Italian peninsula by a wave immigrants
from the north about 1000 b.c. Over the centuries the city of
Rome rose to a position of prominence and the Latin of Rome became the literary standard of the newly-emerging
Roman Empire. Side by side with classical Latin a spoken vernacular developed, which was carried by the Roman army throughout the empire. It completely displaced the
pre-
Roman tongues of
Italy,
Gaul, and
Spain and was readily accepted by the barbarians who partitioned the
Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D. Further divisions led to the eventual emergence of the modern Romance languages –
Italian,
French,
Spanish,
Portuguese, and
Rumanian.
The Latin , or
Roman,
alphabet was created in the 7th century b.c. It
was based on the Etruscan alphabet , which in turn was derived from the Greek. Of the original
twenty-six etRUScan letters the Romans adopted
twenty-one.
The original Latin alphabet was
A,
B,
C ( which stood for both
g and
k ),
D,
E,
F,
ι ( the Greek zeta ),
H,
I (which stood for both
i and
j),
K,
L,
M,
N,
O,
P,
Q,
R (though for a long time this was written P),S,
T,
V (which stood for for
u,
v, and
w),
and
X.
Later the Greek
zeta (
ι ) was dropped
and a new letter
G was placed in its position.
After the conquest of Greece in the first century b.c.
the letters
Y and
Z were adopted from the contemporary Greek alphabet
and placed at the end.
Thus the new
Latin alphabet contained
twenty-three letters.
It was not until the Middle Ages that
the letter
J ( to distinguish it from
I )
and letters
U and
W ( to distinguish them from
V ) were added.
Latin lacks somewhat the variety and flexibility of Greek, perhaps reflecting the practical nature of the Roman people, who were more concerned with government and empire than with speculative thought and poetic imagery. Yet in the hands of the great masters of the classical period it was the vehicle for a body of literature and poetry that can bear comparison with any in the world.»
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см. стp.68~69 --> "
The Languages of the World." Kenneth Katzner. ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL
London and New York (c)
1977,
1986 ISBN 0-7102-0861-8 , (на 376 страницах)
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