@article{1479449,
      recid = {1479449},
      author = {Leonhardt, Jürgen,},
      title = {Latin : Story of a World Language /},
      pages = {1 online resource (352 p.) :},
      abstract = {The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua  franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives  today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead  language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across  centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the  story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the  present.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479449},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674726277},
}