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Show A Uiitlln or LnnKiinpii, Three or four languages strove for mastery In ancient Oaul, which Is now France. (3erman was spoken by the lL'.OOO Frank invaders. I'opular Latin was spoken by O.ooO.POO (iallo-Itomaus. Literary Latin was the language of the church and of literature. Low Latin was afterward the language of the administration. ad-ministration. Ceruiau was the first to succumb. In four centuries It ceased to bo understood by the soldiers, and In seventy years more It had become an object of ridicule. Hut it survives In more than 1)00 words, expressing the things of go eminent, law nnd war, and thus forms no Insignificant part of the French language. |