Marlon Joseph Tesoro Battad<p>how could we possibly know the ancient Romans said it like this?! well, it's simple! they were truly more advanced than many medieval european civs in many ways, which included leaving a lot of texts. someof the texts give VERY precise examples of how they spoke, how words were pronounced, etcetera. pretty neat, right?!<br><a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>roman</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>latin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/europeanhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europeanhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/rome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rome</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/churchlatin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>churchlatin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.art/tags/throwbackthursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>throwbackthursday</span></a></p>