WHY LATIN LANGUAGE IS FUNDAMENTAL IN STUDYING EUROPEAN LANGUAGES

Аннотация

The development of language is a fascinating study. The ancient Chinese and Egyptians used pictographic languages which took years for the priests and scholars to master. The common working citizen had no time for such study and so remained powerless and able to be exploited. About 1500BC the Phoenicians developed a phonetic alphabet which could be used by the common merchants to conduct their trading businesses. The Greeks learned it from them and further developed it by adding vowels. This phonetic alphabet made people think differently. It encouraged analysis and the development of a whole written language of interchangeable components. All the languages that developed from the Latin and Greek root vocabularies function like that. If we don’t teach the root meaning of those components, we burden ourselves with the task of learning thousands of individual English words as wholes. By studying Latin can master the components of many languages, including English. KEYWORDS Latin language, Romance languages, Roman Empire, Catholic Church, the spread of Christianity, Latin influence, the language of the Normans, the European syntax. Volume 03 Issue 12-2023 97 American Journal Of Philological Sciences (ISSN – 2771-2273) VOLUME 03 ISSUE 12 PAGES: 97-103 SJIF IMPACT FACTOR (2022: 5. 445) (2023: 6. 555) OCLC – 1121105677 Publisher: Oscar Publishing Services Servi