Latin: Latin belongs to the Latin-Falish branch of the Italian family of Indo-European languages. Originally a dialect of Latium (Italian for Lazio) in central Italy, it was widely spread in the empire because the expansion of the Roman Empire originated in this area, and Latin was designated as the official language.

After Christianity spread widely in Europe, Latin became more influential. From the Middle Ages in Europe to the beginning of the 20th century, Roman Catholicism used Latin as the common language, and most academic papers were written in Latin. Although only the Vatican still uses Latin, some academic words or articles, such as the naming rules of taxonomy, still use Latin.

The classical Chinese used by Emperor Augustus of the Roman Empire was called "classical Latin", and the vernacular Chinese used by the people in the 2nd-6th century was called "vulgar Latin".

Spanish: The formation of Spanish is closely related to the development and evolution of Spanish history, and its formation process can be roughly divided into the following stages.

Before the Spanish invasion, the inhabitants of the peninsula used Iberian people to enter the peninsula. The influence can be distinguished by some words (especially some place names), even Spanish names, according to legend. Legend has it that the peninsula is inhabited by Spaniards, so it is called Spain. In Spain, the name is Espa? Answer.

The latter is the vitality of ordinary people. Soldiers and subsequent craftsmen and small businessmen spread it to Iberia and other provinces of the empire, and left it in the conquered land with political system, economic model, literature and art, customs and beliefs, taking root, flowering and bearing fruit.

As a "Roman" language, Spanish can find many factors in its language structure and form. Lexically, most of them express endless words related to human existence, such as date (month, week), astronomy, animals and plants, etc. For example: grassland: Prado (Spanish); Land: tierra (Spanish); Sun: Sol (Spanish).

2. Different characteristics

Latin: Latin words and Latin vocabulary are the language resources owned by human beings. Linguists classify Latin of Indo-European family as K language. Latin stress has a certain rule: if the penultimate syllable is long, the stress falls on this syllable, otherwise it falls on the penultimate syllable.

Grammatically, there is no article, and the noun forms are varied, which keeps the vocative case in Indo-European, but merges the real case, instrumental case and most locative cases in Indo-European into one case. Verbs have complex morphological changes, but they are simpler than Greek. Due to the change of verb person, the person in the sentence

The subject of pronouns is often omitted. There are also heterogeneous verbs, such as loquor, which are passive in form and active in meaning; There are unique verbs that can be used as participles and adjectives. The word order of sentences is relatively free and flexible. Lexically, it is basically the direct inheritance of Indo-European languages, but there are also many foreign words from other languages.

Latin is a comprehensive language, and the complicated inflectional system constitutes the main part of Latin grammar. These changes are usually achieved by adding suffixes (external inflections) at the end of words or changing consonants or vowels (internal inflections) at the stem. For nouns, adjectives and pronouns, this change is called "downward inclination", and for verbs, this change is called "upward inclination".

Spanish: All nouns are divided into yin and yang, and verbs need to change according to the person of the subject. The pronunciation of letters in Spanish is relatively simple.

3, the use of different regions

Latin: Latin (Lingua Lat: na) belongs to the Indo-European Italian family, which originated from Latin (Lazio, Italy) and was used by the Roman Empire.

Although Latin is generally regarded as an extinct language, a few Christian clergy and scholars can use Latin fluently. Roman Catholicism traditionally uses Latin as the language of formal meetings and liturgy. In addition, many universities in western countries offer Latin courses.

Spanish: Spanish (espa? Ol) is mainly used in Latin America except Brazil, Belize, French Guiana, Haiti and Spain. There are also a considerable number of users in several southern States of the United States, the Philippines and parts of Africa (including Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara and Spanish African territories, such as Ceuta and Melilla).

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