Who created the Latin Hebrew and Greek alphabets?

Answer 1

AnswerLatin was the language spoken by the Romans in Italy, the people who created the Roman Empire. The Latin language was not deliberately created. It was the language spoken on the streets of Rome, a lot more like Italian or Spanish than the Latin that we read in books today. Street Latin was a kind of slang, just as we have slang speech in modern languages, in modern times, different from the written language.

However, Roman citizens, authors, writers, playwrights, and poets, like Cicero and Vergil, did create the more complicated forms that we see in written Latin: they added constructions, conjugations, and declensions to deal with more complicated ways of dealing with information in time and space. The authors needed to add all those strange tenses with the strange-sounding names, to convey ideas more complicated than the street lingo could handle.

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Agree with part of the above. Writers described, categorized, and gave names to things like cases of nouns, and moods and tenses and moods of verbs. Unwritten languages can be quite complicated, and in some cases certain aspects of language get simpler as time goes on. It is believed that Indo-European had eight cases for nouns; Latin has five, German four. In English we have lost cases of nouns completely and rely more on word order and prepositions. Subject, object, and possessive could be thought of as three cases of pronouns.

Answer 2

Latin was one of several languages spoken in the Italian peninsula when Rome was on its way to being a world power. It's part of the great Indo-European family of languages which included German and all the Germanic languages (including English), Russian and the other Slavic tongues, Celtic languages and the Aryan languages of India, such as Sanskrit.

Answer 3

Originally, Latin was the language of the inhabitants of Latium, the region of Italy that included the city of Rome. Later, as Roman influence spread, Latin became the language first of Italy and then of much of the continent of Europe. The Romance languages, descended from Latin, are still spoken in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Belgium, Switzerland and Romania (not to mention parts of Africa and the Americas that were colonized by Romance speakers).

Answer 4

The earliest archaic Latin was originally an unimportant prehistoric regional dialect spoken in a very small area of ancient Italy, one of many different tribal languages in that area including Etruscan, Ligurian, Oscan, Umbrian, Picene, Sabine, Sabellic, Messapic and even a form of Greek. These were all Indo-European languages except for Etruscan; the Etruscans then conquered most of Italy, bringing their own non-Indo-European language to the entire region.

Etruscan kings ruled in Rome from the end of the 7th century BC until 509 BC when the Roman Republic was established; during this period both the Etruscan language and an archaic form of Latin would have been spoken in the city.

As Rome's power and influence grew, its language spread first across Italy and then throughout all its conquered territories. Latin had absorbed many words of Etruscan and the other Italian dialects, so it was already a bit of a mixture and it continued to absorb foreign words as it spread.

Archaic Latin had Greek-looking word endings like -os and -om, which became -us and -um in classical Latin. The element ex was originally pronounced more like egs, gradually changing to eks - this explains why the genitive of rex is regis.

Answer 5

Latin was heavily introduced into Anglo-Saxon after the Norman invasion in 1066, where French, a Romance language, replaced English as the language of the government. Latin also became the primary language of the clergy, meaning many words slowly were replaced over a 200 year period.

English, however, still remains a primarily Germanic language.

Answer 6

The Latin language was started/created by the Romans.

Answer 7

Latin is a member of the Italo-Celtic branch of the Indo-European family of languages, which probably originated in northern Eurasia.

Answer 8

Nobody knows, but the earliest Latin records are from the first century BCE.

Answer 9

Latin was not created. It evolved over thousands of years from older languages.

Answer 10

Early Romans, Hebrews and Greeks