id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6992 History of Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 8794 1530 76 Classical Latin differs from Old Latin: the earliest inscriptional language and the earliest authors, such as Ennius, Plautus and others, in a number of ways; for example, the early -om and -os endings shifted into -um and -us ones, and some lexical differences also developed, such as the broadening of the meaning of words.[5] In the broadest and most ancient sense, the classical period includes the authors of Early Latin, the Golden Age and the Silver Age. Golden Age[edit] Proto-Italic and Old Latin had a stress accent on the first syllable of a word, and this caused steady reduction and eventual deletion of many short vowels in non-initial syllables while affecting initial syllables much less. (post-)PIE Ancient Greek Old English Gothic Sanskrit Notes 2. PIE *eu, *ou > Proto-Italic *ou > Old Latin ou > ọ̄ (higher than ō < PIE *ō) > ū: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6992.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6992.txt