when did latin become italian?

Answer 1

1099

Answer 2

Latin is the foundation for the Romance languages which include Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Similarly, English is a Germanic language, so much of the grammar and vocabulary in English is similar to German.

Italian was first recognized as a language in the 14th century and the earliest writing in Italian dates back to 960.

Answer 3

This is a good question to ask those who claim that biological evolution is impossible "because a chimp can't give birth to a human". If Latin turned into Italian, who was the first person to speak Italian and who did he speak it with? The answer of course is that the language changed gradually over the centuries.

Sorry for being off-topic.

Answer 4

Latin never become italian but italian has a lot of latin words.
Italian was the language speech in Flocence.
Then it was accepted in the rest of Italy because of cultural influence of Florence.
Sorry for my horrible english.

Answer 5

I believe it was around the time of Dante Alighieri that it was finally officially acknowledged that the people of Italy were no longer speaking Latin, although of course it evolved over about 500-800 years to reach that point.

According to the Wikipedia article:

"The earliest surviving texts which can definitely be called Italian (as opposed to its predecessor Vulgar Latin) are legal formulae from the region of Benevento dating from 960-963[1]. Italian was first formalised in the first years of the 14th century through the works of Dante Alighieri, who mixed southern Italian languages, especially Sicilian, with his native Tuscan in his epic poems known collectively as the Commedia, to which Giovanni Boccaccio later affixed the title Divina. Dante's much-loved works were read throughout Italy and his written dialect became the "canonical standard" that others could all understand. Dante is still credited with standardizing the Italian language."

Answer 6

Latin is a language on its own - Italian, French, Spanish and English have Latin roots - but they are NOT Latin!

Answer 7

Latin is the parent/root language of Italian (and Portugese, Spainish, and French). It did not become anything but lost to time.

Answer 8

Latin never "became" something else. It still exists and is spoken in various places, mainly by clerics. There is Classical Latin, with its own pronunciation and structure, and Vulgate, which is a mediaeval form, with many deviations from its antecedent.
italian is another langauge with many elements stemming from Latin, but a different structure and lexis.

Answer 9

It didn't. Latin is an entirely different language than Italian.

Answer 10

After the Fall of the Roman Empire.