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Broadly Latin was the main language in the western Roman Empire but educated people would also have spoken Greek, and in the eastern Mediterranean it was revers
by ifwinterco 3mo ago
Broadly Latin was the main language in the western Roman Empire but educated people would also have spoken Greek, and in the eastern Mediterranean it was reversed (almost everything was done in Greek but Latin was used for official purposes and by educated people).
Coptic is the interesting one though because it's actually the latest version of ancient Egyptian