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LingoBear creates short Latin passages on topics you choose. Tap any word for an instant English translation and build your vocabulary as you read. Italic language of ancient Rome, ancestor of all Romance languages, classical Latin alphabet (23 letters; no j, u, w), six cases, no fixed word order.

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What are the main stages of Latin?

Latin is conventionally divided into Old Latin (before c. 75 BC), Classical Latin (75 BC–3rd c. AD, the language of Cicero, Caesar and Virgil), Vulgar Latin (the spoken Latin that evolved into the Romance languages), Late Latin (3rd–8th c.), Medieval Latin (the dominant European scholarly language to c. 1500), and Ecclesiastical/Neo-Latin still used in the Vatican today.

What grammar features should I expect in Latin?

Latin uses six noun cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, vocative), three genders, five declensions, and four conjugations of verbs marked for person, number, tense, mood and voice. Word order is largely free because relations are shown by endings. The Classical alphabet originally had 23 letters — j, u and w were added in the medieval and early modern periods to disambiguate.