id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5902 Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 12688 1612 67 Latin was originally spoken in the area around Rome, known as Latium.[2] Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language in Italy, and subsequently throughout the western Roman Empire. Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders, six or seven noun cases, five declensions, four verb conjugations, six tenses, three persons, three moods, two voices, two or three aspects, and two numbers. By no later than the 15th century they had replaced Medieval Latin with versions supported by the scholars of the rising universities, who attempted, by scholarship, to discover what the classical language had been.[17][13] Interlingua is sometimes considered a simplified, modern version of the language.[dubious – discuss] Latino sine Flexione, popular in the early 20th century, is Latin with its inflections stripped away, among other grammatical changes. Latin language news and audio[edit] Latin language online communities[edit] Articles containing Latin-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5902.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5902.txt