id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2577 Latin - Wikipedia .html text/html 12894 1651 67 Latin is a highly inflected language, with three distinct genders, six or seven noun cases, five declensions, four verb conjugations, six tenses, three persons, three moods, two voices, two or three aspects, and two numbers. After the Western Roman Empire fell in 476 and Germanic kingdoms took its place, the Germanic people adopted Latin as a language more suitable for legal and other, more formal uses.[4] By no later than the 15th century they had replaced Medieval Latin with versions supported by the scholars of the rising universities, who attempted, by scholarship, to discover what the classical language had been.[18][14] Interlingua is sometimes considered a simplified, modern version of the language.[dubious – discuss] Latino sine Flexione, popular in the early 20th century, is Latin with its inflections stripped away, among other grammatical changes. Latin language news and audio[edit] Latin language online communities[edit] Articles containing Latin-language text Articles containing Medieval Latin-language text ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2577.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2577.txt