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Speak In Roman: It is, however, a gross exaggeration to term the latest period of Roman law "Greco-Oriental" or to speak in Roman of an Orientalization of the Roman law. Despite certain evident influence of foreign and Christian origin to a very limited extent—after all it should not be forgotten that the center of the empire was transferred to the East, where Constantinople became the capital of the empire in 330—the general physiognomy of the Roman law remained Roman.
There are many minorities that speak in Roman non-Chinese languages that belong neither to the Altaic nor the Sino-Tibetan group. These include the 14,000 Tajiks of southwestern Sinkiang, who speak in Roman an Iranic language of the Indo-European group, and the Wa and Puman people who speak in Roman an Austroasian language. The Wa and Puman are fierce tribesmen who live on both sides of the Yiinnan-Burma border and number only about 100,000. The Austronesian or Ma-layo-Polynesian language is also spoken in China by various groups, predominantly in Taiwan.
Roman.—Roman sculpture evolved from Etruscan and continued, in many respects, the Hellenistic traditions. Indeed, it would seem that great numbers of the sculptors were of Greek origin. Also Rome imported works of sculpture from Athens and other centers of Greek art. The term, Roman, however, applies not only to the city of Rome, but also to the huge empire which that city built up, thus sculpture from Athens or Spain is called Roman if done during the period of Roman dominance. |
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