who invented the language of Latin?????PLEASE!!?

Answer 1

Latin was not "invented". Latin evolved out of the Proto-Italic language about 4000 years ago. Proto-Italic itself was a descendant of Proto-Indo-European about 1000 years or so earlier. Latin's sister languages in Early Italic were Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, and probably a few others that we have no records of. About 2000 years ago, Latin started to break up into dialects, but the writing system was slow to keep up. About 800, Alcuin codified written Latin in the form that we now know it, separate from the spoken languages around it that descended from it.

CORRECTIONS TO OTHER POSTS: Etruscan had nothing to do with the Latin language, Etruscan isn't even an Indo-European language. The Latin alphabet did NOT derive from the Greek alphabet, but from the Etruscan alphabet (which derived from the West Greek alphabet, not the classical Greek alphabet). The Romans did NOT come from somewhere else to settle on the Tiber River in the early first millennium BCE. That is just the "Trojan Origin" myth found in Vergil's Aenied. It's a myth. Proto-Italic came from farther east in Europe, but it was probably in the second millennium BCE, not the first. The Romans also did NOT originate in Greece and Greek vocabulary is only a very small proportion of Latin vocabulary and Latin grammar is nearly 100% Italic grammar and nearly 0% Greek grammar. Similarities between them are because THEY ARE BOTH INDO-EUROPEAN languages, NOT because Latin borrowed from Greek.

MORE CORRECTIONS: Egyptian had NOTHING to do with Latin.

Answer 2

Latin is an ancient Indo-European language that was spoken in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire and had de facto status as the international language of mid and western Europe until the 17th century and is the base language for the languages spoken in France, Italy and the Iberian peninsula and through them to South America. The conquests of Rome spread the language throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe. It existed in two forms: Classical Latin, used in poetry and formal prose, and Vulgar Latin, spoken by the people. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of the Roman Catholic Church Latin became the ecclesiastical language of the Roman Catholic Church and the lingua franca of educated classes in the West.

Latin is a member of the Italic languages and its alphabet is based on the Old Italic alphabet, derived from the Greek alphabet. In the 9th or 8th century BC Latin was brought to the Italian peninsula by the migrating Latins who settled in Latium, around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization would develop. During those early years Latin came under the influence of the non-Indo-European Etruscan language of northern Italy.

Although surviving Roman literature consists almost entirely of Classical Latin, the actual spoken language of the Western Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin, which differed from Classical Latin in grammar, vocabulary, and (eventually) pronunciation.

Answer 3

I cannot believe that people are saying that Etruscans spoke Latin. They most certainly DID NOT.

Also someone is saying we have no living proof of the Latin language. Just go to Italy! You will see it inscribed on ancient monuments everywhere naked to the eye as the day those monuments were created!

Latin is the language spoken by the Romans, themselves a people who originated in Greece. Much of the Latin vocabulary itself was based on Greek but Latin had evolved over time significantly to be known as a language in its own right.

The Romans (living approximately 2000 years ago) were based in Rome were they founded their Empire. A form of Latin called Latin Vulgaris was spoken in that Empire and the Latin we know today was reserved only for written documents.

Latin Vulgaris still exists today but has simply evolved again into new languages in their own right. We know those languages as Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and Romanian.

Answer 4

A farmer in what is now central Italy named Gerund invented Latin. He and his twin brother, Gerundive, both grew up speaking Oscan, the language of their parents. While working in the fields with his parents one day, he thought it would be neat if he and Gerundive could come up with a secret language that only they could understand. He talked to Gerundive, who also thought it was a great idea. They worked on it for months, but after it was developed, they realized that there were only two speakers.

There was another set of twins about their age, Romulus and Remus, on the next farm. They got together with them and taught them their new language. Gerund didn't take it any further, but he did not realize how ambitious Romulus and Remus were. Those twins went on to found a new city, and following an incident of scandal involving wolves, they were successful. They insisted that all who came to the new city learn the secret language.

Thus was Latin invented.

Answer 5

Latin is thought to come form a language that most linguists agree that existed but of which we have no living proof. The language is now called Indoeuropean. Like most natural languages it wasn't invented, but it evolved form the everyday use of Indoeuropean.

Answer 6

the latins, later known as the romans

Answer 7

Nobody 'invented' it, any more than English was invented. It was spoken in ancient Rome.

Answer 8

Al Gore

Answer 9

carpe diem=live the moment
divide et tempera=divide end conquer
it descends from Greeks and Egyptian

Answer 10

The Romans, but they stole a lot of words from the Greeks.

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Troy