Central to the cultural space of Palenque de San Basilio is the palenquero language, the only creole language in Latin America with a lexical Spanish basis and grammatical characteristics of Bantu languages.
Pope Benedict XVI has approved the launch of a new Latin language college in the Vatican.
While Catholic services today are celebrated in local languages, Latin remains the official language of the Roman Catholic church.
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An epochal advance in literature was Dante's The Divine Comedy, wherein he single-handedly took a dialect of Latin and virtually created the modern Italian language.
The Pontifical Academy for Latin will promote the knowledge and study of the language from classical times to the present day, said the Vatican.
Vatican II made fundamental changes in the environment of the Mass in having services conducted in the language of each congregation (instead of in Latin for all), and having the Mass celebrants turn around and face the congregation.
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Hence Diageo, for the merged Guinness-Grand Met, which combines the Latin for day with the Greek for world and means nothing in any language.
Brithenig is an answer to the question of what English might have sounded like as a Romance language, if vulgar Latin had taken root on the British Isles.
Issuing his decree, he said that since the early days of Christianity, the Church had made Latin "her own language", and that it was still held in high regard.
Unlike Latin and French, German was never the language of diplomacy and culture.
People have been warning us that language was going to the dogs ever since Latin started turning into French.
French was once the nearest thing (since Latin) that Europe had to an international language.
Martin and others are, in part, following in the footsteps of Estefan, who helped introduce Latin music to English-language audiences.
The French essayist Michel de Montaigne was brought up speaking Latin as his first language and as a boy read Ovid's Metamorphoses for fun.
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In northern and eastern Europe Latin carried on as a language for scholarship and to some extent government even into the 19th Century.
The canton is the only part of Switzerland that speaks Swiss German, Italian and Romansch, a language close to Latin that originated in ancient Rome.
But in Rome the challenge is not to chop and squeeze the language into new shapes, but to translate modern words into the full, but precise, complexity that Latin requires.
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