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The language known today as Spanish is derived from spoken Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans after their occupation of the peninsula that started in the late 3rd century BC. Today it is the world's 4th most widely spoken language, after English, Mandarin Chinese and Hindi. [1]
With the advance of the Romans, Latin spread across the region and created linguistic unity. The Latin that arrived was not classic Latin but a colloquial dialect called vulgar. With the...
Feb 10, 2024 · The history of the Spanish language started with the Roman Empire’s conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which belongs to the Carthaginian state, in the 2nd century BC, and the spread of their native language, Latin, and the spoken dialect of Latin, Vulgar Latin, to the region.
Spanish contains a large number of words of Latin origin that, although widely used in Imperial Latin, are now found only in the Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula, or have vernacular cognates only in scattered Romance-speaking regions.
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One of Marison’s Spanish students (who has knowledge of Latin and French) posed an excellent question in class the other day: “How and why do languages change?”This blog post is my attempt to answer this very intricate and fascinating matter. To begin with, let’s consider what makes one language variety (whether a language or a dialect) different f...
It is useful to divide speech sounds into vowels and consonants: vowels are fundamentally “mouth-open” sounds, and consonants are “mouth closed” sounds. Some consonants involve closure of the oral passage and have airflow through the nose: we call these nasals, and Spanish has the nasal consonants /m, n, ñ/. Some consonants also involve closure of ...
Aside from changes at the level of sounds, changes in the meanings of single words are important in the development of Spanish as we know it today. For example, the Latin verb miror, mirari meant ‘wonder, marvel at,’ a sense preserved in the English derivatives “ad-mire,” “miracle,” and “miraculous.” In Spanish, the reflex (“descendant word-form”) ...
The Spanish language has evolved over the centuries from spoken Latin brought to the Iberian Peninsula by the Romans. It was influenced by Al-Andalus and borrowed lexicon from Arabic. The first standard written norm of Spanish was established by Alfonso X the Wise in the 13th century.
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The earliest point evolution of evolution of the Spanish language can be traced back to around 1500 years ago when it, along with other romance languages and most dialects of Spain, began to evolve from Vulgar Latin.
