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   wayne glass:

   Just wondering about proper pronunciation of Latin numerals. Is “c” pronounced as “ch”? Is “g” pronounced as in “giant” or as in “golf”? Thanks to anyone who can advise me.

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   Ray Moore:

   @wayne glass

   Classical Latin: C is actually pronounced K

   Classical Latin: G is pronounced as g in golf

   Ecclesiastical Latin: C is pronounced as CH

   Ecclesiastical Latin: G is pronounced DZ as in giant

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   ili:

   i would like to ask how i can write in latin the following date: 29-09-2002

   thank you!

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   Dolly:

   This was very helpful. I’m a beginner in Latin, but some other websites don’t have this.

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   Joel:

   Somebody should please help me out..Am a beginner in latin language..My challenges are the alphabets and pronunciation…Help Help please

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   Richard M Thompson:

   How can it be asserted that the correct pronunciation for Classical Latin can be defined? The original speakers didn’t exactly leave audio records, did they? I remember poor old ‘Chips’ (“Goodbye Mr Chips”) lamenting (as a teacher of boys) a directive on pronunciation which turned the Latin word vicissim from ‘veechissim’ into ‘we kissim’. I can’t help slipping into a sort of Italian pronunciation – which it sounds as if the Ecclesiastical pronunciation (I’ve not heard it) might be closer to.

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     Tom Ardmore:

     @Richard M Thompson Records found of early schooling sessions replace the letter W for the letter V, implying that that is how V is pronounced. It was confusing even for the Romans.

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     liz:

     @Richard M Thompson latin started in italy, aka rome. of coarse you would slip to italian

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   dsd:

   thanx

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   Dr. Fidelitas Cospanus:

   It is a pleasure to have such a variety of Latin words on my computer to learn or relearn as a daily diversion!
   Please continue the potpourri of vocabula et verba to refresh my Gymnasium studies : ante septenginta novem annos !

   salve et vale. Medicus Cospanus

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   costas:

   I need help please …how can i write the date in latin

   06/11/2012

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     Linfex:

     @costas VI XI MMXII

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    wolskerj:

    No,they didn’t leave audio records, but we can know how Latin was pronounced in ancient times several ways:

    1. The Romans themselves wrote a lot about their language and how to pronounce it “correctly.” Public speaking was a high art and many rhetorical ‘handbooks’ about how to speak and how to pronounce words, survive.

    2. The Roman empire was bi-lingual. Latin speakers in the west needed to learn Greek, Greek speakers in the east needed to learn Latin. Many instructional works still exist.

    3. Errors and misspellings often reveal how a word was pronounced in everyday life – “habio” for “I have” rather than the correct “habeo.”

    4. Transliteration to other languages and alphabets like Greek or Hebrew can reveal pronunciation. When Greeks spelled “Cicero” they could have used either Kappa or Sigma. They used Kappa, which means they pronounced it as “Kikero.”

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      Linfex:

      @wolskerj VI / IX /MMXII

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    Peter:

    How do you say 1,586,832

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    kc:

    I would like to know how can I write in latin the following date: 29-09-2001
    Many Thanks!

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    Moshiri:

    God, those Romans were so stupid; they didn’t have a “zero.” Thanks to us Persians who discovered it and enabled the world to inherit all the points in heavens and earth.

    Second Chapter: but we Persians hit the bottom and are now the scourge of the earth!

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    RomanEnthusiast:

    Moshiri, the Roman number for zero was “nihil,” which means nothing.

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    Kevin Pattison:

    Hi, I would like to tattoo the year of birth of my parent’s, sister and myself on the inside of my forearms. I’m not really sure for example the year I was born (1954) should it read XIXLIV or MCMLIV I want it to read like a year not a number in the thousands or are both correct. Sorry for the ignorance. I’m 60 years young ok old then and running out of brain cells but I’m still learning, thankyou for your time and effort hope to hear from you thanks Kevin

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    Amin:

    romanenthusiast, I think what moshiri is trying to say is that the number zero enabled the current numbering system to be established. as clever as the romans were they had no numeral for 0 which meant their numbering system was cumbersome to say the least.

    Since its development zero has been fundamental in Descartes Cartesian coordinate system and in Newtons developments of calculus. Without calculus we wouldn’t have modern physics, engineering or computers.

    So nihil just didn’t cut it. I’m afraid.

    But going to the origin Im not quiet sure it was completely a Persian invention. I think the eastern Asians and Indians also had similar placeholder shapes, but the origin did come from a Persian mathematician (name slips my mind( if someone does google it and it says arab please do not mix arab and Persian. The guy was Persian but as all mathematicians and scientist of the time from that period (around 8th century AD approx.) they all had to have arab names or their works wouldn’t be published, or they wouldn’t have got funded.

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      Plasticman:

      @Amin The first recorded use of zero was in 36bc in a Mayan script to mark events in astronomy.

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    victoria keene:

    This helped me so much thank you for all of your work.

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    Mica Shaper:

    This site really has all of the information and facts I needed concerning this subject and didn’t know who to ask.

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    Luci Soppeland:

    I love your writing style truly loving this website .

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    Roxann Ritson:

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    Sharona:

    To Moshiri and Amin- the use of zero as a number and place holder was developed in India around the 5th century. algebraic rules for the elementary arithmetic operations appeared first in India by Brahmagupta (7th century.

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    Samantha Cortez:

    HoI!!
    Thank you soo much for making this for us, this has really helped me with my studies, so please accept my cake!!!! *hands cake*
    BOi!!!

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    PJC:

    This was a great help!

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    Adolf Maten:

    Thanks alot

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    Abe:

    In medical field we use latin numbers what is pronunction of Xa

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    Rich:

    Fact is: The Mayans where the earliest users of the Zero

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    Mariusz:

    Nihil or nulla for zero?

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    sheleicha:

    07-11-2017 in Latin please?

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    janet:

    hi im wanting to know how to spell
    “the power of three ” in latin please

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    Samuel Ayamba Abugri:

    This good to leading roman numerous