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2007-07-05 21:26:48 · 12 answers · asked by LeSsBrAiN 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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It didn't vanish. It only mutated in several different dialects, which then became different roman languages.
The languages that have Latin origin are: Italian, Spanish, french, Portuguese, Romanian, and a dozen of dialects.
Latin has also affected English language much more than you can imagine! Only in these paragraph that I'm writing there are few Latin words, such as vanish, mutate, several, different, language, affect, imagine...
Latin is still in live usage in law and medicine, where is used as an international language of science.

2007-07-05 23:27:54 · answer #1 · answered by Milica L 3 · 1 1

Latin was wiped out (really, unless there is some Papal declaration from Vatican) from the current living beings mouths. Because there was a lot of complexities in Latin grammar.
We have to understand the social significances also. The Latin speaking community gave way to a more easy-going and consumeristic society. So the culture entirely vanished along with the language.
One more thing to add. It really vanish into nothing. But divided all her inheritance to other western languages.

2007-07-06 09:32:32 · answer #2 · answered by Lily of God 1 · 0 1

yes, it did not vanish it mutated. my latin teacher was always joking about the medieval "latin" texts with their poor grammar.
Latin formed the basics of Romanic languages of today.
The main issue of dissappearing of spoken pure Latin is that the Roman empire was overrun by barbarians -germanic tribes. the rest of the roman empire , the eastern part was hellenic oriented and did use the greek language. western part of the roman empire was shred into several regions, where the language mutated into italian, french, spanish, portugese, Romanian, and it left definite traces in English, too. Latin was used bz Irish monks during dark ages 8th century to spread the Christianity into the Europe. Latin was the diplomatic language of the middle ages in Europe. it was the church language, too.

2007-07-06 07:01:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It didn't vanish. It only split in several other languages from the old roman provinces where latin was spoken. The new latin languages are italian (Rome), spanish (Hispania) , french (Galia), portuguese (Lusitania), rumanian (Dacia), galician, occitan, catalanish (these also in old Hispania) and a few others.

2007-07-06 14:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by Falco 7 · 0 0

It didn't vanish. Latin may be dead, but it is dead and kicking!
Jump over to the Latinum podcast and have a listen to some Latin:
http://latinum.mypodcast.com

2007-07-06 17:30:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I don't think it vanished. It changed in different regions, like in Italy changed to Italian, in Spain to Spanish, in Portugal to Portuguese and in France to french. It also mixed with barbarian languages creating English. So no, i don't think it has really vanished

2007-07-06 04:30:41 · answer #6 · answered by Gabi 4 · 4 0

Latin was a very difficult language unlike the present European romanic languages, which have its origin in Latin. Several people could not read or write the language due to the very tough grammer. This included several "cases" like the Accusative, Dative, Ablative, Genetive, Locative, Vocative etc. etc. The declination and congugation of words complicated even the spoken language. Very few mastered it and wielded their power over the others. This could have probably led to the proletariats simplifying the language by trial error methods.

2007-07-06 04:34:53 · answer #7 · answered by Ganesh 4 · 1 4

It didn't vanish. It changed, melded and merged with other nearby languages and became present day Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, etc.

2007-07-06 05:05:38 · answer #8 · answered by Booger 3 · 4 0

latin language is not vanished. it is being used
some parts of the country which we are not aware
thats all that does not mean that Latin is vanished.

2007-07-06 04:32:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 4

It became a dead language because people discarded it.

2007-07-10 04:08:45 · answer #10 · answered by Mahesh R 5 · 0 0

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