Author : Leonard Tafel
Release : 2015-07-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
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Book Synopsis Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet (Classic Reprint) by : Leonard Tafel

Download or read book Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet (Classic Reprint) written by Leonard Tafel. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Latin Pronunciation and the Latin Alphabet Within the last twenty or thirty years great progress has been made in the dominion of language as well as in all the departments of the arts and sciences. Before this time, the classical languages were a separate branch of study and of learned investigation, but by the efforts of Prof. F. Bopp and his school, they are now acknowledged to be members of one large family, the organic forms of which mutually supply and explain each other. Most idioms of Italy, even, are shown to be members of one common stock, by the important labors of Aufrecht, Kirchhoff, Mommsen, and other learned men, and the Latin itself, far from being any longer regarded as a mere mongrel composition of Greek and barbarian elements, is now universally admitted, by the learned, to be of the same independent growth among the other Italic dialects, as the Hebrew among the Semitic. Highly important results, moreover, have been attained by the critical examination of Latin texts made by Ritschl, Lachmann, Fleckeisen, and others, while floods of light have been shed on the whole history of the development of the Latin language, by the investigations of Diez, Fuchs, and other philologists, who, starting with the Latin in the latest stages of its existence, have traced from it the beginnings of the modern Romance tongues. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.