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The Latin language was spread across Western Europe during the Roman Empire. Latin was the main language spoken in the provinces of the Roman Empire and it was used for most official documents and religious ceremonies. Although Latin was the main language there were still regional dialects in use throughout the empire such as Celtic in Gaul and Iberian in Hispania.
Latin also had an influence on the development of languages later used in Western Europe. The Romance languages such as Spanish French Italian and Portuguese all evolved from Latin. Additionally many of the Germanic languages such as German and English were also heavily influenced by Latin.
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∙ 10y agoThe main language in the western part of the Roman Empire was Vulgar Latin a mixture of Latin and the local languages. This is shown by the fact that Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese are Romance languages, which means that they are languages derived from Vulgar Latin. These areas covered the bulk of this part of the empire. It is not known whether other areas of this part of the empire also spoke Vulgar Latin because their populations have been replaced and absorbed by Germanic peoples.
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∙ 15y agoThe whole Roman Empire were speaking Latin for the administration purposes of the state and the literate persons were speaking Greek apart the local languages Celtic, Gaul etc....
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What empire in the west was complementary with the Han Dynasty?
The empire in the west which was contemporary to the Han Dynasty was the Roman Empire.
How will historians remember the West The evil empire?
You are assuming the West is an evil empire.
Is Songhai Empire in West Africa or East Africa?
Songhai empire is in west africa
What was the last Great West African Empire?
Songhai Empire
Is Songhai Empire in east Africa of west Africa?
West Africa.
What language are the Byzantine speaking?
The Byzantines primarily spoke Greek. This was the official language of the Byzantine Empire and was used for administration, literature, and everyday communication. Over time, Greek became the predominant language of the people in the Byzantine Empire.
Africa's west coast was mainly controllled by which European Empire?
France
Africa's west coast was mainly controlled by which European Empire?
probably it was france.
What language is sabali yonkonte?
Bambara, mainly spoken in West Africa and Mali. it has a french influence.
What important change occured in the byzantine empire after the fall of the roman empire in the west?
greek replaced latin as the official imperial language
What was the general language and culture of the Byzantine Empire?
Even though they called themselves Romans, they spoke Greek. The capital city was Byzantium, and was renamed Constantinople after Emperor Constantine the Great, a Latin name, however the peoples of the eastern Roman Empire were Greeks, with a thin Roman overlay, which faded as the empire split into east and west, and the western empire was then taken over by the Goths , Vandals, Franks and other peoples
Where does the Wollof language originates from?
This originate from west Africa. It is mainly spoken in Gambia, Senegal, Mauritania and Mali.
What language was spoken in England in the 1800s?
I would start with the Encyclopedia Britannica. Then check out History of the English Speaking Peoples, volume III, The Age of Revolution and volume IV, The Great Democracies by Winston Churchill. Also try the excellent Rise and Fall of the British Empire. Michael Montagne
What language did most people speak in the eastern Roman Empire?
The eastern part of the Roman Empire had a variety of language as different conquered people had different languages. Some of them were Egyptian, Yiddish, Syriac, Armenian, Thracian, Dacian and Illyrian. Aramaic was a lingua franca in the Asian Middle East. The elites spoke Greek because the Greeks ruled the eastern Mediterranean (Pergamon in western Turkey, the Seleucid Empire in the Asian Middle east and the Ptolemaic kingdom in Egypt)prior to the Romans and Greek was the language used in the Greek/Eastern Church (which later came to be called Orthodox Church). Latin was the imperial language because the Romans spoke Latin. After the fall of the western part of the Roman Empire Greek became the official language of the eastern part. Historians have coined the term Byzantine Empire to indicate the eastern part of the Roman Empire after the fall of the western part. The Romans did not use this term, they called it Roman Empire or Romania (this referred to this empire and not the country which was later called Romania). The term Byzantine is derived from Byzantium, the Greek city which was redeveloped, turned into the imperial capital of the eastern part of the Roman Empire and renamed Constantinople by the emperor Constantine the Great in 330. It is used to indicate the fact that not long after the fall of the west, this empire became centred on Greece and Greek in character after it lost most of its non-Greek territories. Greek replaced Latin as the official language of this empire in 620, some 150 years after the fall of the west.
What is an Amorite?
The Babylonian empire.
Was greek the language of the western part of the Roman Empire?
Latin was the official language of the whole of the Roman empire was Latin because the Romans were Latins. The different ethnic groups spoke either their own languages or vulgar Latin, a mixture of Latin and their original languages. The use of Greek in the east was quite widespread.
What Jewish languages were spoken in the time of Jesus?
Greek - this was the language of commerce and learning also considered the "lingua franca" of the entire Mediterranean part of the Roman Empire thus if they did not grow up with it as their native language most people at least learned it well enough to conduct their businessAramaic - this was the language of the common people and uneducated, its origin is a form of Chaldean that the Jews returning from the Babylonian captivity learned in BabylonHebrew - this was the Jewish religious languageLatin - this was the language of the Roman rulers and the official Law CourtsMany less commonly used languages from nearby lands also existed
