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- Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy.
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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.
The Romans began speaking Latin. After the conquest of Alexander the Great, Greek became a "lingua franca" in the extensive territories of his conquests, though Rome wasn't much affected by this. Rome proceeded to conquer Greece and surrounding territories: Greek was studied and spoken as a language of cultivation by many Romans, including Cicero.
Latin was originally spoken by the Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area around Rome, Italy. [2] Through the expansion of the Roman Republic it became the dominant language in the Italian Peninsula and subsequently throughout the Roman Empire.
Oct 22, 2024 · Originally spoken by small groups of people living along the lower Tiber River, Latin spread with the increase of Roman political power, first throughout Italy and then throughout most of western and southern Europe and the central and western Mediterranean coastal regions of Africa.
- The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and un...
- A “dead” language is one no longer learned as a first language or used in ordinary communication. Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgi...
- Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms...
The western half of the empire is falling to pieces, but the Greek-speaking east, which is still in good shape, keeps using Latin in official contexts until the end of this period. 600-750 — Latin has become a dead language. Few people in the west outside of monasteries can read. The spoken languages of Italy, France and Spain change rapidly.
Just as Latin served early modern Europe as a sign that established and perpetuated a mental empire of Roman identity (Waquet, 258-260), so for the great mass of Greek-speaking Romans across ten centuries, the use of Latin by the government, the legal profession, and the military, was an indispensable source of continuity and legitimacy for a ...
When the Roman Empire spread to western Europe, they found that most of the cultures did not have a written language. Latin was therefore adopted as the written language for bureauracy. This resulted in the local populations gradually also adopting Latin as a spoken language.
