0
Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, Romanian, and a few others all come from Vulgar Latin. A few Thousand years ago, during the golden years of the Roman Empire, Latin was the most widely spoken language in the world. This was because of the Roman Empire's sheer size and influence. Latin is a very complex language, so throughout the empire, vocabulary and dialects varied. Eventually, Vulgar Latin emerged. Vulgar Latin favored the use of prepositions to express location, possession,ect.. and abanoned the Latin Case System, which used word endings to express things like subjects, objects, and possesion. This is the key difference between Traditional Latin and Vulgar Latin, and for that matter, the difference between most modern romance languages and Traditional Latin. (Romanian still uses a case system) Vulgar Latin developed dialects within itself which have evolved away from each other and have become modern romance languages
EDIT: Not only this, but French and Italian actually came before Spanish and Portuguese. French is from the early 900's, then came Italian/Tuscan around 960 (or maybe even a bit earlier). Spanish didn't come along till after 1000, and Portuguese hadn't come till after 1300. And Italian came from the Tuscan dialect (which is purely Latin-derived), not from French or Spanish. Spanish came after Italian.
What else can I help you with?
What ancient language does French Spanish Portuguese and Italian all come from?
Latin. French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian are Romance languages that evolved from Latin, the language of ancient Rome.
What were languages that evolved from Latin?
Italian, French and Spanish are the only ones I know of. There are also English words with Latin origins but the English language does not come from Latin. Also Portuguese and Romanian.
Is Chinese a romance language?
No, Chinese is not a Romance language. It belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, while Romance languages like Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese are part of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family.
What country does the last name Caro come from?
Caro is from Portuguese, Spanish and the Italian 'caro' meaning 'dear' or 'beloved'.
Where does last name Deleon come from?
It came from a Spanish, French, and Italian origin.
What languages come from the language of the ancient Roman Empire?
The Romans did not influence English and Greek. They influenced Spanish, French and modern Italian. The Greek language was around before the Roman language, and English is a Germanic language not Roman. The most popular languages at the time where Roman, Greek, and German. Roman- Spanish, Modern Italian, French German-English, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Finish, Polish, Czech, Greek- Roman, Spanish, Armenian, Albanian, ect.
What language group do french and portuguese com from?
Just like the Spanish language, French and Portugese come from latin and greek roots.
Where does the last name Belmonte come from?
Belmonte is a Spanish/Portuguese/Italian variant of the ultimately Norman name Beaumont meaning "beautiful mountain".
Why do some countries share similar root words?
Most countries languages come from a archaic language that split into many other languages. Latin is used for the basis of Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese and other romance languages.
How are you in European language?
European is not a language. It is a continent where more than 200 languages are spoken. The most prominent languages of Europe are: Albanian Bulgarian Czech Dutch Danish English French German Italian Norwegian Polish Portuguese Russian Spanish Swedish Yiddish
Where does the term romantic languages come from?
From common knowledge Romantic Languages are normally considered to be derived from the Latin language of Rome from which many languages are derived from such as Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French. the term "Romantic" derives from the Roman heritage hence the language being Romantic in nature, not as a concept of 'love'.
Where did the word 'zebra' come from?
Italian or Portuguese, around 1600.
