Latin language:

See C. D. Buck, Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (3d ed. 1948); E. Pulgram, The Tongues of Italy: Prehistory and History (1958); A. M. Gessman, The Tongue of the Romans (1970); R. S. Conway, The Making of Latin (1983); L. R. Palmer, The Latin Language (new ed. 1988).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Classical Latin
• Vulgar Latin
• Latin in the Modern World
• Bibliography

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