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Latin was not supplanted for scientific purposes until the 18th century, and for formal descriptions in [[zoology]] as well as [[botany]] it survived to the later 20th century. The modern international [[binomial nomenclature]] holds to this day: taxonomists assign a Latin or Latinized name as the scientific name of each [[species]].

[[Vulgar Latin]], the range of non-formal [[Register (sociolinguistics)|registers]] of Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onward, is the ancestor of the [[Neo-Latin languages]] ​​([[Spanish language|Spanish]], [[Portuguese language|Portuguese]], [[French language|French]], [[Italian language|Italian]], [[Romanian language|Romanian]], [[Catalan language|Catalan]], etc).

== Outside of western civilization ==