Latin was never a static language, the changes from the empire to the new latin of the church were substantial. I know too little about it, but the study of how

Latin was never a static language, the changes from the empire to the new latin of the church were substantial. I know too little about it, but the study of how latin affected the languages around the empire is still active today when studying old texts and trying to place them in a context. A similar effect can be seen by english culture today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Latin