Continuing classical Latin

Introduction

This unit features a discussion that shows how languages develop ? a spoken language is constantly undergoing change while written language is more conservative. In its second part it also looks at the evolution of Latin into the Romance languages: Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and others.

The discussions throughout this unit are between Professor Geoffrey Horrocks and Dr James Clackson, both of the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University.

This is an adapted extract from the Open University course Continuing classical Latin (A397).

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