Latin

Latin (ⁱ/ˈlætᵻn/; Latin: lingua latīna, IPA: [ˈlɪŋɡʷa laˈtiːna]) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. The Latin alphabet is derived from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets.

Latin was originally spoken in Latium, Italy. Through the power of the Roman Republic, it became the dominant language, initially in Italy and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire. Vulgar Latin developed into the Romance languages, such as French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and Romanian. Latin and French have contributed many words to the English language. Latin – along with Greek – roots are used in theology, biology, and medicine.

By the late Roman Republic (75 BC), Old Latin had been standardized into Classical Latin. Vulgar Latin was the colloquial form spoken during the same time and attested in inscriptions and the works of comic playwrights like Plautus and Terence.Late Latin is the written language beginning in the 3rd century AD and Medieval Latin the language used from the ninth century until the Renaissance which used Renaissance Latin. Later, Early Modern Latin and Modern Latin evolved. Latin was used as the language of international communication, scholarship, and science until well into the 18th century, when it began to be supplanted by vernaculars. Ecclesiastical Latin remains the official language of the Holy See and the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.

Latins (Italic tribe)

The Latins (Latin: Latini), sometimes known as the Latians, were an Italic tribe which included the early inhabitants of the city of Rome. From about 1000 BC, the Latins inhabited the small region known to the Romans as Old Latium (Latium Vetus), that is, the area between the river Tiber and the promontory of Mount Circeo 100 kilometres (62 mi) SE of Rome.

The Latins were an Indo-European people who probably migrated into the Italian peninsula during the late Bronze Age (1200–900 BC). Their language, Latin, belonged to the Italic branch of Indo-European. Their material culture, known as the Latial culture, was a distinctive subset of the Iron Age Villanovan culture that appeared in parts of the Italian peninsula after 1000 BC. Although divided from an early stage into communities which mutated into several independent, and often warring, city-states, the Latins maintained close culturo-religious relations until they were definitively united politically under Rome in 338 BC, and for centuries beyond. These included common festivals and religious sanctuaries.

Lingo (UK game show)

Lingo was a short lived British game show that originally aired as a regional programme for Central in 1987, then it became networked for all ITV regions in 1988.

The Thames series was produced to fill the summer gap in the ITV schedule in 1988 while long-running police drama The Bill was off air for the year. Lingo became a popular programme with ITV viewers, and was expected to return the following year. At the end of the gap, The Bill was returned to the schedule as normal, but from here, The Bill was broadcast continually without a series break; as a result, Lingo was dropped after just one series, also in part due to ITV launching another popular game show in Wheel of Fortune that year.

Rules

The game is played between two teams of two players each. At the start of the game, each team is given a "Lingo" card with 25 spaces on it. One team's card contains even numbers and the other contains odd numbers. Seven numbers on each card are automatically covered at the start of the game.

Lingo (album)

Lingo is the third studio album recorded by Australian band Gang Gajang. It was released in 1994 on RooART and distributed by Warner Music Australia.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Callaghan unless otherwise indicated.

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Lingo (Dutch game show)

Lingo is a Dutch television game show based on the North American format of the same name. Each episode involves two teams of two people trying to guess and spell words. The amount of letters to guess varies from 5 to 8 (depending on the round).

On July 30, 2014, it was announced that Lingo would stop producing new episodes in September 2014 due to declining ratings.

Origins

The original version of the U.S./Canadian game show Lingo debuted in syndication in 1987 with Michael Reagan as host and Ralph Andrews as executive producer. Though it ran for only one season, international versions subsequently appeared in French-speaking Quebec and several European countries. Among these was the Netherlands where, thanks to Harry de Winter (who bought the rights), it became a success. He then used his earnings from the series to start his own production company.

François Boulangé was 35 years old when, in 1989, he became end editor of the programme. The reason the show received such a warm reception in the Netherlands, according to François, is that the Netherlands is a country that enjoys puzzles. Also, the American version followed much stricter rules. For example, the candidates weren't allowed to grab the balls. The grabbing is one of the key elements in the version in the Netherlands, and crowds will often cheer for the candidates to grab a green ball.