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Show Where Latin Is Still Spoken. In the central -part of the Balkans, far up in the mountains between Bulgaria, Servia and Turkey, Tur-key, there is a community of mountaineers among whom strangers seldom come. During the ascendency as-cendency , of the Koman empire a Roman colony was founded here, and then forgotten on account -of ;its remoteness. For the reason that the -descendants of those, ancient colonists have ..never mixed with the people about them they retain their original characteristic, even the language.' |