What was Ancient Rome's Language and Writing like?

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The native language of the Romans was Latin

Its grammar relied little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems

The Latin alphabet that developed gradually was adopted from the Greek and spread throughout the Roman Empire.

Most people in Rome didn't go to school and didn't learn to read and write. Children from wealthy families, however, began school at about age 6 or 7. Students learned to write on boards spread with wax They scratched letters in the wax with a pointed stick (called a stylus) and then rubbed them out with the flat end of the stick.

The Romans used a variety of tools for writing. Everyday writing could be done on wax tablets or thin leaves of wood. Documents, like legal contracts, were usually written in pen and ink on papyrus. Books were also written in pen and ink on papyrus or sometimes on parchment. Inscriptions were sometimes carved in stone on buildings and other monuments, like triumphal arches.

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Ancient Rome Writing

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Ancient Roman Writing

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The language of Ancient Rome was Latin. The writing system used the alphabet which is the basis for the modern Roman alphabet. One difference between Ancient Roman writing and modern writing is that there was no distinction between upper case and lower case. All the letters of the Ancient Roman alphabet were so-called "capitals". There were no "little letters" at the time.

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Ancient Rome, like Latin Rome? or Ancient Rome like pre-Latin Rome...ie Etruscan?

Also there was no J or U or W in Latin, sorry had to point that out.

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Would add to the above that punctuation was essentially nonexistent. You don't realize how much you rely on that until you're faced with a whole page with no punctuation at all.