Due to the extensive growth of the Roman Empire, the Latin language influenced and created several of the most important languages of the world despite the fact that Latin is considered a dead language today. Latin comes from the Italic subgroup of the Indo-European language family. Latin takes its name from Latium, which is the province of Italy that Latin was brought to around the year 1000 B.C. by northern European immigrants (Wyman). Years later, once the Roman Empire had risen to power, the Romans adopted Latin as their official language. Once Rome came to dominate Italy, and as Latin began to spread, the other Italic languages were replaced by Latin. The spread of the Latin language was the primary means by which Roman culture spread