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What is the most common langauge for scienctific names?

Spanish
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Latin

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The most common language for scientific names is English
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Latin

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I looked it up and it said Latin and Greek

They were invented because new words were needed to name newly described structures. For hundreds of years, they had to be in Latin (or Greek) because books about biology and medicine were written in Latin (with a few entries in Greek), which was the international language of science.

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