What did Latin derive from?

Answer 1

no latin originates from about 700-600 bc but Hebrew thousands of years before it may be even the "mother language" as The Bible describes

of course Hebrew is no spoken today in it's pure form and neither is latin both languages evolved in time

Answer 2

No, the two languages are unrelated. Latin developed from Italic languages spoken in Italy. Hebrew belongs to a very different family of languages.

I'm not sure abou this. Latin has to come from somewhere. To describe Latin as having come from Italic languages spoken within Italy presupposes there was a state called Italy at the time Latin emerged, before the Roman Empire. There wasn't, only sets of individual tribal areas or princedoms. Hebrew belongs to a 'very different family of languages' only if the classification of languages is correct. Its not certain that it is. Has anyone done any work on establishing the degree of convergence (if any) between the Hebrew and Latin lexis, and the extent of syntactical convergence between the two languages (if any)?

Do those who advocate that Hebrew is isolated know Hebrew? I suspect not, because if they did they would surely see plenty of convergence. It must surely be remembered that the linguistic tradition we have today is essentially a Christian one, with a vested interest, historically, in overwriting the Hebrew record, if there is one. Perhaps there is a new Origin of Species waiting to be written where language is concerned...........

It is strikingly clear that our European 'Roman' alphabet is extremely close to the Hebrew one, with a convergence of about 85%, I would estimate, and should properly be described as our Hebrew alphabet, but for the intervention of the early Church, one supposes. If the two alphabets hold 85% in common, why not the two languages?

Answer 3

"Brought to Italy about 1000 B.C. by a group of Indo-European immigrants from Northern Europe, Latin begins as a local tongue of a small territory on the Tiber River, called Latium." You can read more about it at the link provided below.

Answer 4

The Latin language was originally one of many tribal languages spoken in Italy, specifically by the people of the small area known as Latium. Inscriptions in Latin first appeared in the 7th to 6th centuries BC and are odd because they were initially written from right to left, or sometimes alternately from the right and from the left.

Most Italian dialects, such as Oscan and Umbrian, were of the Indo-European language family - except Etruscan which is apparently unrelated to any other language.

Latin developed from what is called "proto-Italic", a language or group of languages apparently restricted to Italy and dating back to perhaps 4000 BC.

Proto-Italic was only slightly influenced by ancient Greek and Etruscan.

Answer 5

No, only the Romance languages (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, and a few others) developed from Latin.

Latin and the Romance languages constitute just one branch of a family of languages that all developed from an unattested language known to scholars as Proto-Indo-European. This is a very large family, with members extending all the way from Western Europe in the West to India and Pakistan in the East (not to mention the places colonized by Europeans since 1492). Still, the Indo-European family is only one of a large number of language families that have been identified around the world.

Some scholars espouse a "Nostratic" theory that attempts to establish a relationship between the Indo-European family and a few other Eurasian language familes, but this is controversial and even then the resultant superfamily doesn't come close to encompassing all the world's languages. In any event, the proposed "common ancestor" languages are much older than Latin, and Latin is just one among their many descendant languages.

Answer 6

Latin is derived from a language known as Proto-Italic, which gave rise to Latin and other extinct languages once spoken in Italy such as Oscan, Umbrian and Faliscan. Proto-Italic, in its turn, was one of the offspring of Proto-Indo-European, the ancestor of most of the modern-day European languages along with languages of western and southern Asia such as Kurdish, Farsi, Pashto and Hindi.

Proto-Italic and Proto-Indo-European were never recorded, but are known by historical inference from their attested daughter languages.

Answer 7

No. Latin is not related to Hebrew at all.

Answer 8

No. Latin is not even remotely related to Hebrew.

Answer 9

No, Latin and Hebrew developed within completely different language trees. In fact, no present-day language descended from Hebrew.