Is it possible the italic peoples who brought Latin to rome were actually germans from the north? And latin..

Question

was a dialect of german?

Answer 1

No, but Latin and German are related. Both had a common ancestor in a Proto-Indo-European (PIE). One dialect of PIE evolved into Germanic which in turn evolved into North Germanic, East Germanic, and West Germanic. West Germanic evolved into German, English, Frisian, and some others.

Another dialect of PIE became Italic, which in turn gave rise to Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, and Latin. Latin in turn gave the Romance languages - dozens of them.

So German and Latin are related - somewhere around the second cousin level. As languages go, that's pretty close.

Answer 2

First, none of the list showing the Romance languages fail to mention a language from Switzerland, Romansch which is the single language closest to actual Latin.

Latin is a very open language and although there are some loose rules about word order, the endings tell what part of speech each word is. Latin is flexible in sentence than Spanish. German, on the other hand, has a hard, inflexible word order, often making it impossible to find out the tense of a sentence or paragraph until you get to the last word in the sentence or paragraph.

German had its influences on Latin by adding to sounds like the V sound and the J sound which were not in classical Latin. Latin provided many words to the German language, so there is a good mix of influence.

Answer 3

No not really. There is no evidence that the Latins came from the area where Germany is now, neither archaeologically nor in linguistics . Latin is not a dialect of German

German is not a Romance language. Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese and Romanian amongst others are.

Answer 4

No, that isn't possible linguistically. German is quite far removed from the Romance languages, and has its own history. Some linguists now believe that old Germanic was influenced by Middle Eastern coastal traders, and that some of its unique features come from languages like Arabic or Aramaic. Old Germanic influenced Old English, and we can trace those influences. If it had also influenced Roman, we would see it also, but we don't.

Later edit: Just to clarify: German is not a Romance language. The Romance languages are Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and a few minor languages like one in Switzerland that relates more closely to Latin than to French.

Even later edit: Bill, if you read my post, you will find that I mentioned Romansch, although I did not name it specifically, since no one is familiar with the name.

Answer 5

As said by previous answers, Latin don't derive from Germanic: they were different branches of the Inodeuropean stock.
Both derive from a common earlier language, named by scholars Protoindoeuropean.

An Italic ethnicity (protovenetians) spoke a peculiar indoeropean branch (venetic) that is strictly related with Germanic, some scholars claim. But this is valid only for this language and not for Latin or other Italic languages (Oscan-Umbric, Siculian, etc.)

Answer 6

In legend, Rome was founded by Romulus who was a descendant of Aeneas, a Mycenaean returning from the Trojan War. Whether this is correct or not, Rome was most likely founded by Mediterranean peoples and not Germans or other peoples from Northern Europe. As to the languages, Germanic languages and Romance languages are very different, so if there originally was a connection between them, it would have been extremely far in the past, long before the founding of Rome.

Answer 7

Latin is the root language of all the romance languages, German included. Latin was first.

Answer 8

no