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Latin is a member of the broad family of Italic languages.Its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, emerged from the Old Italic alphabets, which in turn were derived from the Greek and Phoenician scripts. Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed. How and when Latin …

Latin American art: Latin American art, artistic traditions that arose in Mesoamerica, Central America, and South America after contact with the Spanish and Portuguese.

General Overview. Origin and History. Latin (Lingua Latina) is a lanfuage of the Indo-European family that appeared in Italy in the mid 2nd millenium BC. Formerly it was argued that together with the other Indo-European languages of ancient Italy (Faliscan, Osco-Umbrian and Venetic) Latin forms a separate Italic linguistic group, but now this …

Latin America has produced a variety of genres born at the crossroads of European folk music, African music and native traditions. While not as popular as the popular music of the USA (also born out of the integration of European music and African music), Latin American genres shares the same characters that made it a universal koine’.

Latin dance has a long and complicated history, but the elements that come back again and again are self-expression and rhythm. While some Latin dances are

The term “Latin America” primarily refers to the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in the New World.Before the arrival of Europeans in the late 15th and early 16th centuries, the region was home to many indigenous peoples, a number of which had advanced civilizations, most notably from North to South; the Olmec, Maya, Muisca …

History of Latin America: History of Latin America, the history of the region from the pre-Columbian period to the 20th century.