number of romance languages??
What does R.I.P. stand for in its original language?
2007-12-07 08:59:39 · 9 answers · asked by me 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The question says "in its original language". Well, the original language was Latin.
So, REQUIESCAT IN PACE. Or if it's in the plural, "requiescaNt in pace"
Pay atention to the endings! It's not "pacis" as another contributor suggested, that's the dictionary form (Nominative), but you need the Ablative case to express the location....
Of course this means "let him/her/them rest in peace".
And it's just a coincidence that this three words happen to begin with the same letters in English as well... Well, it's some kind of borrowing, but that's a completely different story...
As for the numer of Romance languages (as in, languages derived from Latin), you can mention the major 5: Italian, French, Spanish, Portughese and Romanian.
2007-12-07 13:00:33 · answer #1 · answered by Little Miss Latin Helper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Little d is correct on RIP, and has given the main Romance languages.
You probably never will get the linguistic experts to agree on just how many Romance languages there are - or were. The problem is deciding what is a separate language and what is just a dialect of another. That border is very, very fuzzy, and what to one expert is a single language with three dialects is seen as three separate languages by another and as two languages plus one dialect by a third expert.
At any rate, there are dozens of Romance languages spoken today, and probably as many more that are now extinct. Using those that are official national languages is probably the simplest and covers about 97% of the Romance language speakers.
You could add a couple of other lesser-known ones to the list. Catalan is the official language of the tiny country of Andorra, It is also spoken in a wide area of Spain, a part of France, and a very small area on Sardinia. It has about 10 million speakers. Romansch is one of the four official languages of Switzerland. It is spoken by fewer than 100,000.
2007-12-08 12:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by dollhaus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Requiescat In Pacis
2007-12-07 17:06:59 · answer #3 · answered by charlton_g_w 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Latin = requiescat in pace
2007-12-07 17:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rest In Peace i guess
2007-12-07 17:03:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
just plain rest in peace is all that i got when i looked on the internet
2007-12-07 17:02:54 · answer #6 · answered by Trick Love Da Kids 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
rest in peace
2007-12-07 17:01:46 · answer #7 · answered by CC 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
rest in peace difinetly
2007-12-07 17:02:49 · answer #8 · answered by Vanessa V 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i thought it was rest in peace.
2007-12-07 17:01:40 · answer #9 · answered by Trisha heart 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋