Where does the LAtin language come from?

Answer 1

Latin language (Lingua Latina)
In the 5th century BC, Latin was just one of many Italic languages spoken in central Italy. Latin was the language of the area known as Latium (modern Lazio), and Rome was one of the towns of Latium. The earliest known inscriptions in Latin date from the 6th century BC and were written using an alphabet adapted from the Etruscan alphabet.

Rome gradually expanded its influence over other parts of Italy and then over other parts of Europe. Eventually the Roman Empire stretched across a wide swathe of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Latin was used throughout the empire as the language of law, administration and increasingly as the language of everyday life. Literacy was common among Roman citizens and the works of great Latin authors were read by many.

Meanwhile in the eastern Mediterranean, Greek remained the lingua franca and well-educated Romans were familiar with both languages. In fact the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature are Latin translations of Greek plays, and Cato's farming manual, which dates from 150 BC.

The language used in much early Latin literature, classical Latin, differed in many ways from colloquial spoken Latin, known as vulgar Latin, though some writers, including Cicero and Petronius, used vulgar Latin in their work. Over the centuries the spoken varieties of Latin continued to move away from the literary standard and eventually evolved into the modern Italic/Romance languages (Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, etc).

Even after the collapse of the western Roman Empire in 476 AD, Latin continued to be used as a literary language throughout western and central Europe. An enormous quantity of medieval Latin literature was produced in a variety of different styles ranging from the scholarly works of Irish and Anglo-Saxon writers to simple tales and sermons for a wider audience.

During the 15th century, Latin began to lose its dominant position as the main language of scholarship and religion throughout Europe. It was largely replaced by written versions of the vernacular languages of Europe, many of which are descendants of Latin or have been heavily influenced by it.

Modern Latin was used by the Roman Catholic Church until the mid 20th century and is still used to some extent, particularly in the Vatican City, where it is one of the official languages. Latin terminology is used extensively by biologists, palaeontologists and other scientists to name species and specimens, and also by doctors and lawyers.

Latin alphabet
The Romans used just 23 letters to write Latin:

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P Q R S T V X Y Z

There were no lower case letters, I and V could be used as both vowels and consonants, and K, X, Y and Z were used only for writing words of Greek origin.

The letters J, U and W were added to the alphabet at a later stage to write languages other than Latin.

J is a variant of I and was first used during the 16th century by Petrus Ramus.

U is a variant of V. In Latin the /u/ sound was written with the letter v, e.g. IVLIVS (Julius).

W was originally a doubled v (vv) and was first used by scribes writing Old English during the 7th century AD, however the Runic letter Wynn (Ƿ) was more commonly used to write the /w/ sound. After the Norman Conquest the letter W became more popular and had replaced Wynn by 1300.

Answer 2

Where Did Latin Come From

Answer 3

The source, as best we know, is a language called Proto Indo Eoropean (PIE), spoken 10,000 years ago or so, somewhere around present-day Ukrainia. From that split off several languages -one was Proto Italic, which in turn gave Italic, which in its turn gave Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, and Latin.

Since Latin was the language of Rome, it became dominant with the Roman Empire and the others died out.

Latin in turn gave rise to Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Romansch (Swiss), Provencal, Occitian, Galego, Catalan, Dalmatian, Illyrian, and many others.

Answer 4

The truth is that "latin america" refers to the countries of the american continent
where the official language is a latin language (also said "romance language") that means a language coming from latin (roman language).

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. It gained wide currency as the formal language of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire, and later through its adoption by medieval scholars and the Catholic Church. An inflectional and synthetic language, Latin relies little on word order, conveying meaning through a system of affixes attached to word stems. The Latin alphabet, derived from that of the Etruscans and Greeks, remains the most widely-used alphabet in the world.


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Answer 5

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Latin is a member of the family of Italic languages, and its alphabet, the Latin alphabet, is based on the Old Italic alphabet, which is in turn derived from the Greek alphabet. Latin was first brought to the Italian peninsula in the 9th or 8th century BC by migrants from the north, who settled in the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where the Roman civilization first developed. Latin was influenced by the Celtic dialects and the non-Indo-European Etruscan language of northern Italy, as well as by the Greek of southern Italy.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

True Latin comes from Italy and has been perpetuated by the Catholic Church. Not too many people know the language anymore, but a few centuries ago, most of Europe did

Answer 8

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A full list will be long, but I will give it a go: Spanish Gallego (spoken in Galicia, Northern Portugal) French Occitan (spoken in the Languedoc) Gascon (spoken in Gascony) Franco-Provencal Catalan Portuguese Romanian Sursilvan, or Rumantsch (spoken in Switzerland, Canton Ticino) Ladin (spoken in the Italian Dolomites) Italian Sardinian Sicilian (including Salentino and Southern Calabrese) Calabrese (Northern) Lombard (many consider West Lombard - including milanese - and East Lombard - including Bergamasch - to be separate languages) Emilian-Romagnolo (many consider these two to be separate languages - this group includes Bolognese, Modenese, Parmesan and many others) Laziale Abruzzese Trentino Veneto Campanian (including Neapolitan) Pugliese (not including Salentino) Piemontese Ligure (including Genovese) This is not a full list by any means, but I think I have included the important ones. Please note that Sicilian, and all of the others I have listed which are spoken in Italian territory are *not* dialects of Italian ... Italian itself is a standardised form of the medieval literary Tuscan dialect.

Answer 9

Rome Empire language similar whit old Dacian language?

Theory presenting the Dacian language as a Pre-Latin language related to Latin

1)The mystery ! How is possible for Romanian a Latin based language, isolated in Eastern Europe and surrounded only by Slavic languages, to be more Latin than even Italian ? (The place where the Latin language originated from-Dacia)

2).The Romanian language is the closest “proximus” Neo-Latin language to Classical Latin. Being the only Romanic language to keep the declensions and the Neuter gender from Classical Latin. Despite many Slavic loanwords, Romanian is still more related to Classical Latin than even Italian (related to Vulgar Latin or Late Latin)

3).The Ancient Romanian (Dacian) is an enigma for many historians…The Romanian language consists of just few Dacian words, some shared with Albanian. There is a theory presenting the Dacian language as a Pre-Latin language related to Latin. For this reason the Dacians understood Latin without a translator.

When the Romans came to conquer Dacia, the Emperor Trajan said he is coming back to the lands of his ancestors

In Troy there are arheologic similarities between the ceramic types found at Troy and the ceramic types from the Carpathian area (related to the start of Roman Empire)

Some "wolf warriors" tribes were present among the pre-Romanic inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. They derived their behaviours and beliefs from the Dacians.

The Dacians in the Roman Sculptures:
The Dacians lost both a part of their country and a considerable amount of their wealth and gold, yet their image and prestige remained untouched. As a matter of fact, the Romans paid homage to the Dacians by representing them in their sculptural art. The dignified image of the Dacians was placed in Trajan's Forum, at the heart of Rome. This noble image of the Dacian people, these sculptural representations of the Dacians (a large part of them), managed to conquer the destructive nature of Time and last until now.

The famous Black Sea exiled Roman poet, Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-17 A.D.) speaks in his writings about his next door Getae neighbor who was worshipping Ares (Greek equivalent to the Roman Mars). . Iordanes wrote that "the Getae people have always adored Mars through an extremely savage cult, killing war prisoners as sacrifices dedicated to His glory...". Some of the wolf warriors, worshipers of Mars, moved from the Balkan peninsula, crossing the Adriatic Sea, to the Italian Peninsula. Some "wolf warriors" tribes were present among the pre-Romanic inhabitants of the Italian peninsula. They derived their behaviours and beliefs from the Dacians. The legend of the she-wolf who raised Romulus and Remus, said to be the sons of Mars, together with the affirmation of Vegetius, who wrote "the God Mars has been born from within Thracian Land" shows the Thracian origins of the Roman warriors' beliefs and religion.
The Historia Augusta mentions that wolf-snake draco became the Roman imperial flag: the mother of Severus (193-211 AD) dreamt of a purple snake before his birth, something very alike what we later hear of the Imperial standard. (Scriptores Historiae Augustae, Severus 4.1)

Answer 10

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome.

Answer 11

I think it's romania because the Romans used to speak latin