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Jul 1, 2013 · After the fall of the Roman empire in the west in AD 476, Latin evolved into a wide variety of regional dialects now known as Romance vernaculars. In the early 14th century the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri reckoned that more than 1,000 such dialects were spoken in Italy.
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Italian (italiano, pronounced [itaˈljaːno] ⓘ, or lingua italiana, pronounced [ˈliŋɡwa itaˈljaːna]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire.
- Development of The Language from Its Origins
- The Foundations of Modern Italian
- The Italian Language Today
The Italian language has developed through a long and gradual process, which began after the Fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century. Up until this moment, Latin had spread and had been imposed across the Empire as the ‘madre franca’, or the shared language. After the fall of the Empire, vernacular and local forms of the languagehad an importan...
From a historical perspective, it is not wrong to claim that the high, or cultured, Tuscan dialect, which the three most important poets of the 1300s (Alighieri, Boccaccio, and Petrarch) wrote can be considered the basis of modern Italian. Yet despite this, the Italian language as we know it today is the result of a long process of evolution and de...
The impoverishment of the language
Italian is a language rich with vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and semantic nuances. In fact, the most complete dictionaries can contain from 80,000 to 250,000 entries. Research carried out a few years before the death of the famous Italian linguist Tullio De Mauro(1932-2017) confirmed that, in everyday conversation, around half of the population only uses 3000 words. Furthermore, similar research confirmed that in certain groups of the population (and not necessarily the most disadvantag...
Language borrowings
Since the birth of the Republic in 1946, the Italian language has become rich in foreign terms. Even in the years before the Italian language was invaded by French words in the world of fashion, English in sports, and German in philosophy and psychoanalysis. The Fascist regime aimed to get rid of all these foreign “contaminations” and control the Italian language. To see the effect of this you only need to think about Italian’s national sport. Football was introduced in Italy towards the end...
Italian abroad
Spoken only in Canton Ticino in Switzerland and in a few communities of Istria (between Slovenia and Croatia), for almost 40 years Italian interests people of every age from all over the world. This has led to the birth of numerous Italian language schools in Italy and the creation of many courses abroad, in Universities, language schools, and also the Italian Institute of Culture. The main motivation which leads many foreigners to choose Italian is a love for the country and its culture.
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Historical Latin came from the prehistoric language of the Latium region, specifically around the River Tiber, where Roman civilization first developed. How and when Latin came to be spoken has long been debated.
Latin was spoken from its first signs in the 8th century B.C. all the way up to 800 A.D. (A.D. stands for the Latin anno domini, which means “year of the Lord”, while B.C. stands for “before Christ”). Even today, Latin has not disappeared entirely from Italian.
Apr 24, 2024 · How did Latin evolve into the Italian language? Italian isn't quite Modern Latin, but rather a descendant of its everyday form. Like other Romance languages, Italian gradually evolved from Vulgar Latin, the common people's Latin, over a long period.
The Italian language derives mainly from "vulgar" Latin, which was the spoken language among commoners and less educated citizens of ancient Rome. The other form, classical Latin, was used in a literary and ecclesiastical scope.
