Original dialect of the territory of Latium (Rome) belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family; it is one of the oldest attested languages of the IndoEuropean group. The earliest attestations (inscriptions, names) date from the...

Latin (lingua Latīna, pronounced [laˈtiːna]) is an ancient Indo-European language that was spoken in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and had de facto status as the international language of science and scholarship in mid and western Europe...