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SPANISH: ITS HISTORY AND EVOLUTION. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH

SPANISH: ITS HISTORY AND EVOLUTION. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH. COMENIUS REGIO. PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES. Mediterranean Coast: the Iberian people (little remains-few inscriptions) Celts came. Celtiberos: mixed society Iberian and Celts Lusitanos- west of the peninsula (spoke a Indoeruopean language).

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SPANISH: ITS HISTORY AND EVOLUTION. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH

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  1. SPANISH: ITS HISTORY AND EVOLUTION. CONTEMPORARY SPANISH COMENIUS REGIO

  2. PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES • Mediterranean Coast: the Iberian people (little remains-few inscriptions) • Celts came. Celtiberos: mixed society Iberian and Celts • Lusitanos- west of the peninsula (spoke a Indoeruopean language) I

  3. PRE-ROMAN • Tarstesios in the Portuguese Algarb and south of Spain. Not an Indoerupoean Language • Greeks and Fenicios: on the Mediterranean coast • Basks: north of Spain

  4. TRAITS FROM THE PRE-ROMAN LANGUAGES Phonetically Morphologically Lexically

  5. PRE-ROMAN

  6. ROMAN PERIOD • 218 BC Rome starts invading and colonizing Spain • As result, Pre-roman lenguages are lost • And Vulgar Latin begins to be spoken (Latin spoken by soldiers) • One excepcion: Basque

  7. VISIGOD PERIOD AND BEGINNING OF ROMANCE LAGUAGES • VI a.c. This german tribe invades Spain, but its already romanized • Division of the penisula in kingdoms. • Each kingdom developed its own language: Romance Languages (Castilian, Catalan, Galician)

  8. ARAB PERIOD • Year 711, the Arabs settled in Spain • Part of the Visigod Royal family took refuge in the north and mixed with the tribes of that area • Strong influence of Arabic vocabulary

  9. FirstLiterayTexts • First, Spanishwasnotconsideredtherightlanguageforwriting, itwasLatin • Thefirstwords in Spanishwerewritten in theexplantion of Codixes in theMonasteries of San Millan de la Cogolla y Santo Domingo de Silos. Centuries X and XI. Page 72 fromthe Códice Emilanense

  10. CREATION OF THE LINGUISTIC NORM • Alfonso X, el Sabio: 1252-1284 • Spanish became the lenguage of transmission of culture • The writing code was established until XVIth century • Uniformity in the way Spanish was spoken in the penisula: habla toledana

  11. GOLDEN AGE • 1492 Nebrija publishes his “Gramática” which gives Spanish prestige • Famous writers contribute to the establishment of the language: • In poetry, Garcilaso de la Vega • In prose, Cervantes through his Quijote • In drama: Lope de Vega

  12. MODERN SPANISH, FROM XVIII ON… • Established • The process of change that began with Alfonso X finishes • The Royal Academy for the Language is created in 1713 to preserve the purity of Spanish

  13. SIMILARITIES BETWEEN ANDALUSIAN SPANISH AND LATINAMERICAN SPANISH • Ships departed for the New World from Sevilla • The crew spent a lot of time in Sevilla before leaving • There was an on going contact between Spain (mainly Andalucia & Canary Islands) and Latinoamerica. Common traits.

  14. SPANISH AROUND THE WORLD

  15. LATIN AMERICAN SPANISH Phonetically: • Seseo (pronunciation of the s and z as s) • Yeismo (pronuniation of ll as y) • Dropping of the s at end of a word Morphologically: • Voseo (vos instead of tu) • Usted/ustedes vs. Tu/vosotros

  16. SPANISH IN OTHER COUNTRIES • Ladino (Spanish from the Sefardis) • The Philippines • The USA

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