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5 days ago · By 700 AD people had to learn it as a second language. Latin was dead as a spoken mother-tongue. Instead there is proto-Romance the mother of all the modern Latin-derived languages. See Vulgar Latin by Joszef Herman.
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- The Fall of The Roman Empire
- The Death(?) of Latin
- The Rise of Christianity
- Latin as A (Modern) First Language
- The Death(s) of Latin
After its founding in 753 BC, the Roman Empire endured for about 1,000 years. The founder of Rome was the legendary Romulus and the last Roman Emperor was Romulus Augustus, so the Empire begins and ends with a Romulus. But the Latin language did not die immediately with the Empire. It would linger on as a living language for another 500 years, at l...
When did Latin die? To oversimplify the matter, Latin began to die out in the 6th century shortly after the fall of Rome in 476 A.D. The fall of Rome precipitated the fragmentation of the empire, which allowed distinct local Latin dialects to develop, dialects which eventually transformed into the modern Romance languages. In a sense, then, Latin n...
We’ve charted when Latin “died,” but how did it survive for so long? And why do people still learn to speak it? The answer has to do with a small, disliked religion in the Empire that worshipped as God a poor, young Jewish man from Galilee. The enemies of this religion called it Christianity (see Acts 26:28). But the Christians called themselves Ec...
In the 1530s, close to Bordeaux, France, the essayist Michel de Montaigne was born. Today, Montaigne is best known for his masterpiece, Essays— a collection of reflective pieces that make excellent armchair reading even today. Montaigne was born at the intersection of various historical movements. In the two decades before his birth, Martin Luther ...
The story of Montaigne points to the various ways we can answer: When did Latin die? First, we must define death. And for a language, there are gradations of death. The first death is no one speaks Latin as a first language. The second is no one speaks Latin at all. The latter is the most extreme form of death for a language. Scholars call it “exti...
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Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgil, became “dead” after its form became fixed, whereas Vulgar Latin, the language most Romans ordinarily used, continued to evolve as it spread across the western Roman Empire, gradually becoming the Romance languages.
Jul 4, 2022 · As Babbel explains, a dead language is any language that’s “no longer the native language of a community of people.”. That definition may vary slightly depending on your source: According to ...
Jun 29, 2021 · When linguists say that a language, such as Sumerian, Akkadian, Egyptian, Ancient Greek, Latin, or Old Norse, is “dead,” what they mean is that it is no longer spoken as a living vernacular; they don’t usually mean that no one knows how to speak the language at all.
Jun 1, 2021 · The answer to the question of when Latin, ancient Rome's language, died is a complicated one. There's no date in the annals of history to mark the end of Latin as a spoken language, and some...
Abstract. The chapter begins with a discussion of some of the characteristic features of Latin, such as its case system and ablative absolute construction, with examples taken largely from Latin phrases (like vice versa) that have passed directly into English. Three case studies follow: the first looks at the word-play in Lucretius’ De rerum ...
