latim
Latim, or Latin, is an Italic language of the Indo-European family that originated in the Latium region of central Italy. It was the language of Rome and the Roman Republic and Empire, and it became the dominant medium for administration, literature, philosophy, and law across much of Europe. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Latin persisted as the lingua franca of learning, theology, and diplomacy, evolving into Medieval Latin and Early Modern Latin, which supported Western scholarship and science. Latin is the ancestor of the Romance languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, which developed from Vulgar Latin as regional speech diverged.
Today Latin is considered a dead language in the sense that it has no native-speaking community, but
Latin is traditionally written with the Latin alphabet. Classical Latin, used by authors such as Cicero and