 As a relic of the great importance of New Latin as the formerly dominant international "lingua franca" down to the 19th century in a great number of fields, Latin is still present in words or phrases used in many languages around the world, and some minor communities use Latin in their speech.The official use of Latin in previous eras has survived at a symbolic level in many mottos that are still being used and even coined in Latin to this day.Old mottos like , found in 1776 on the Seal of the United States, along with and , and adopted by an Act of Congress in 1782, are still in use.