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Where did Latin come from?

Where did Latin come from?. Proto Indo European (PIE). Latin, like many other languages, was descended from a language called Proto-Indo-European PIE is a reconstructed language Spoken as late at 3500BCE but never written down Latin got a lot from PIE including the CASE system .

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Where did Latin come from?

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  1. Where did Latin come from?

  2. Proto Indo European (PIE) • Latin, like many other languages, was descended from a language called Proto-Indo-European • PIE is a reconstructed language • Spoken as late at 3500BCE but never written down • Latin got a lot from PIE including the CASE system

  3. Latin is of the ITALIC language family • It came from a language of the Latin region (hence the name) • Influenced by Greek and Etruscan

  4. PIE Cognates

  5. Who spoke Latin? • The Romans! (and lots of people they conquered)

  6. History of Latin • Archaic Latin: 500BC (or so) to 75BC • Plays: Plautus and Terence • Different phonology • Classical Latin: 75BCE to 150AD • Most of the material we will be reading comes from this era • Cicero, Catullus, Vergil, Suetonius • Late Latin: 200AD to 900AD • Administrative language

  7. Where did Latin go? • Romance languages • Derived from vulgar Latin • During collapse of 5th century vulgar Latin evolved independently in the different areas it was spoken

  8. Where did Latin go? • Ecclesiastical Latin • Medieval/Renaissance Latin • Medieval- more influenced by vulgar latin/romance languages • Renaissance- desire to return to Classical roots • Neo-Latin • Anything after the renaissance

  9. Romance language derivatives

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