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A little of history - Latin

Classik

Classik

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So, what happend to Latin? Who and who spoke the language - who are the people.

a strange question - yet some may not know the origin
 
Classik said:
So, what happend to Latin? Who and who spoke the language - who are the people.

a strange question - yet some may not know the origin
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Latin? The most direct descendents are Italians.the other related youngest are Spanish,french,Portuguese,Romanian
 
As I said before, the Latin language came from the primitive romans. Until they united into the Roman Empire they were essentially individual villages that warred between each other from time to time, when they joined together they formed Rome and Latin became a language with more universal rules. As for the death, Latin died a slow death, it had transitions like English has had from old english to middle english to pre modern english to modern english and now with the recent development of European English and American English. Latin underwent little changes like this but it had no way for those subtle changes to be broadcast to all(like the internet), as a consequence new languages formed, those in the Iberian peninsula developed "Spanish"(IMO the modern language that most closely resembles Ecclesiastical Latin) those in England developed "English"(with the help of several invading armies over the years that really made one messed up language), and so on and so forth until the Latin language was no longer used by anyone. Latin really died probably in the first 200 years after the fall of Rome, but it isn't proper to say that since it was merely in a different stage and you wouldn't call English dead simply because we no longer speak Old English. Make sense?
 
The_Epsicle said:
As I said before, the Latin language came from the primitive romans. Until they united into the Roman Empire they were essentially individual villages that warred between each other from time to time, when they joined together they formed Rome and Latin became a language with more universal rules. As for the death, Latin died a slow death, it had transitions like English has had from old english to middle english to pre modern english to modern english and now with the recent development of European English and American English. Latin underwent little changes like this but it had no way for those subtle changes to be broadcast to all(like the internet), as a consequence new languages formed, those in the Iberian peninsula developed "Spanish"(IMO the modern language that most closely resembles Ecclesiastical Latin) those in England developed "English"(with the help of several invading armies over the years that really made one messed up language), and so on and so forth until the Latin language was no longer used by anyone. Latin really died probably in the first 200 years after the fall of Rome, but it isn't proper to say that since it was merely in a different stage and you wouldn't call English dead simply because we no longer speak Old English. Make sense?
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the estrucians were a bit more civilized then the roman empire later on.
 
The_Epsicle said:
As I said before, the Latin language came from the primitive romans. Until they united into the Roman Empire they were essentially individual villages that warred between each other from time to time, when they joined together they formed Rome and Latin became a language with more universal rules. As for the death, Latin died a slow death, it had transitions like English has had from old english to middle english to pre modern english to modern english and now with the recent development of European English and American English. Latin underwent little changes like this but it had no way for those subtle changes to be broadcast to all(like the internet), as a consequence new languages formed, those in the Iberian peninsula developed "Spanish"(IMO the modern language that most closely resembles Ecclesiastical Latin) those in England developed "English"(with the help of several invading armies over the years that really made one messed up language), and so on and so forth until the Latin language was no longer used by anyone. Latin really died probably in the first 200 years after the fall of Rome, but it isn't proper to say that since it was merely in a different stage and you wouldn't call English dead simply because we no longer speak Old English. Make sense?
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Thanks a lot.
This has added more to my knowledge of it...
 
I have no idea how people or how we get to develop languages. Do we really create them? I can say we were born with them or something.

Remember we used to speak just one language. Invented by A&E? If that is the case, I wonder how long it took Adam and Eve to do that, but I guess God gave them the language to make things easier for them. They needed to do little work on Eden. So, God had to give us different tongues. Speaking in tongues? Did we create it too?

We can unconsciously modify languages just as English has suffered. It is indeed suffering. Good English seems to be dead and has been polluted with slangs and how-we-prefer-saying-it nonsense!!!

See how 'God Bless You' has diminished into Goodbye! LOL

It is different with Esperanto, tho



so, about animals, I can say they have their natural language....tho people argue they are all signs - yet they are able to communicate and at times defeat man with those.

Language is power! Viruses, bacterias etc know what I'm talking about. Language is language whether verbal or nonverbal - whether in articulation or gestures.
 
The_Epsicle said:
Don't thank me, thank my mother. She's the one who made me start learning that language at 10 despite my objections, boy I hated it but now I'm glad she made me do it.
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Mothers are gods kinda.

Some schools also teach Latin today. Weird? Not really.
 
Classik said:
I have no idea how people or how we get to develop languages. Do we really create them? I can say we were born with them or something.

Remember we used to speak just one language. Invented by A&E? If that is the case, I wonder how long it took Adam and Eve to do that, but I guess God gave them the language to make things easier for them. They needed to do little work on Eden. So, God had to give us different tongues. Speaking in tongues? Did we create it too?

We can unconsciously modify languages just as English has suffered. It is indeed suffering. Good English seems to be dead and has been polluted with slangs and how-we-prefer-saying-it nonsense!!!

See how 'God Bless You' has diminished into Goodbye! LOL

It is different with Esperanto, tho



so, about animals, I can say they have their natural language....tho people argue they are all signs - yet they are able to communicate and at times defeat man with those.

Language is power! Viruses, bacterias etc know what I'm talking about. Language is language whether verbal or nonverbal - whether in articulation or gestures.
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Goodbye.closer god be with you.shalom is close to that
 
Latin. Language spoken by a small village on the Tiber. It became a Mediterranean wide language when Rome conquered their empire. Our language was influenced by Latin, as many of our ancestors were once part of the empire.

Ditto for Greek. It became influential when Alexander conquered his empire.

English became influential when the Brits conquered their empire. As a former part of their empire, we speak English.
 
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