The Latin it is one of the oldest languages on planet earth that has an italic branch, was widely used in the Ancient Rome and belongs to the Indo-European language family. It should be noted that the use of the Latin language was not limited to antiquity, far from it, since later, in the Middle Ages, in the next Modern age and even today, in the contemporary stage he keeps talking about it. For example, today the Vatican City its official language is Latin and in the Catolic religion, Latin turns out to be the liturgical language.
The fabulous expansion achieved by Rome In ancient times it made Latin, the official language of the empire, also spread throughout the rest of Europe and even North Africa, catching up with the Greek language.
Among the most salient characteristics of Latin is its character as an inflectional language that includes a lot of information in both suffixes and prefixes, based on the inflection of some terms.
On the other hand, Latin has been the kick-off of much of the so-called Romance languages (evolved from vulgar Latin), such as: Portuguese, Galician, Spanish, Aragonese, Catalan, French, Italian, Romanian, Dalmatian.
Meanwhile, Latin has several and transcendent uses today, in the most recent past and in the most remote, being the official language of Vatican City and the liturgical language of the Catholic religion, they are added: to denominate binary names at the request of the scientific classification, both animal and plant (biological taxonomy), to designate figures and institutions belonging to law, in articles in scientific journals, appearing fully expressed in this language or partially and in corresponding studies to the philological, philosophical, literary, historical, legal and linguistic fields.
