[DOC] [TLE] Ancient Romans' Language Is The Root Of Some Very Modern ... [PAR] Aug 26, 2012 ... When it comes to creating English words, no one can hold a candle (not even a 
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earlier people. ... are all that remains of the original languages of ancient 
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French territories and the Latin scholarship craze, was internally very ... Despite 
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occurs 36,411 times which is nearly the half of the frequency of the. [DOC] [TLE] Ancient Roman Language and Scripts - Crystalinks [PAR] In the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which later became the Byzantine ... it 
has been estimated that 80% of all scholarly English words derive directly or... [DOC] [TLE] History of the English Language | Site for Language Management in ... [PAR] Then in the third century came the first Viking incursions on the island of Britannia
. .... Today's English has roughly one million words that can be traced to ancient 
... At this time, members of the clergy and scholars used Latin, and scientists 
readily .... first king of the Plantagenet dynasty, controlled over half of eastern 
France,... [DOC] [TLE] The History of English - Old English (c. 500 - c.1100) [PAR] All these peoples all spoke variations of a West Germanic tongue, similar to 
modern .... eucharist, candle, temple and presbyter came into the language this 
way). ... 7th-8th Century) and its first great scholar (Alcuin of York in the 8th 
Century), .... be made up of Old English words, and, by some estimates, ALL of 
the hundred... [DOC] [TLE] How has Greek influenced the English language? | British Council [PAR] May 18, 2015 ... How many words derived from Greek have you used today? ... 'According to one 
estimate, more than 150,000 words of English are derived from Greek ... Modern 
Greek is derived from Koine, a common dialect of Ancient... [DOC] [TLE] (Very) Brief History of the English Language - Wordorigins.org [PAR] Jan 15, 2001 ... ... because the Romance languages derive from Latin, the language of ancient 
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... The Normans were also of Germanic stock (Norman comes from... [DOC] [TLE] English as a Classical language - David Crystal [PAR] Ask what other language is related to English, and most people ... over 350 
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of the 'word-hoard' ... English. The British OED contains some half a million words
; so does the ... today is far greater than the total known words of Ancient Greek. [DOC] [TLE] The European languages and their genesis [PAR] The Indo-European languages comprise a language family of several ... to the 
2005 SIL estimate, about half (219) belonging to the Indo-Aryan sub-branch - .... 
English

Question: Scholars estimate that half of the words in English are derived from this ancient tongue
Answer: Latin