How did Italy go from Latin to Italian?

How did Italy go from Latin to Italian?

hard mode: no brainlet memes like vulgar latin

>hard mode: no brainlet memes like vulgar latin
that's literally the answer though

it's not 'though'

It's almost as if languages change over time or some shit.

What do you think it is

I don't understand the question. What are you even trying to ask?

It changed over the course of centuries and millennia just like all languages do. There's nothing mysterious about the process.

There never was an 'Italian' until very recently

Latin gradually mutated in different forms throughout Italy, forming a variety of dialects. With advancements in communicative technology, especially the television, the dialect 'tuscan' gradually took over the whole of Italy, thus forming the italian language.

Italian isn't formed from Tuscan but from Florentine and didn't form last century, it already existed since the late middle ages

A-a-user Florence is in Tuscany.
And the rest of your post is just retarded.

Kill yourself, retard.

>the dialect 'tuscan' gradually took over the whole of Italy, thus forming the italian language.
bahaha

florencian is the true itlaian languiage pleb

Where is florence you retard ?

>he insists
You're wrong. And an imbecile. Tuscan has at least three different dialects.

What's 2 + 2?

Hard mode: no brainlet memes like 4.

why are you asking people if you feel you know the answer?

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Germanics invaded

In Italy.

t. another user

The Tuscan dialect evolved further since the 1200s-1300s, while the vulgar Florentine spoken in that timeframe became the golden standard for Italian, and the language used by the elite in most Italian states, and was crystallized until it became the language taught in schools after Italy unified. Meanwhile, tthe various Tuscan dialects evolved on their own (even the one spoke in Florence), and over the course of five centuries diverged from what was to become standard Italian, expecially in pronounciation.

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excellent post

Latin > Italo-Dalmatian > Tuscan dialect of Italo-Dalmatian > Italian

dante LITERALLY invented italian
just like shakespeare did for english

but traces of proto-italian predate Dante's which also incorporated words from other parts of Italy in his works

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>what's 2+2=
>4
>brainlet meme, give me a real answer

>was crystallized
No living language ever "crystallizes."

can't we just have our founding myths?
you'll try and take romulus away next

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>can't we just
No. Fuck off.

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did latin have many dialects?

the intellectual's post

The same way English went from Anglo Saxon to Old English to what we are shitposting with now.

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It's me i am the missing link

>what is 2+2?
>hard mode: don't say 4

more like
>why is 2+2=4

It never mutated. Italians just kept using their own dialects, from before Rome turned up, and over time these merged with Latin.

To this day there isn't really a singular "Italian", there is still a mosaic of regional dialects.

>shadman

>Vulgar Latin
>Brainlet Meme
Then again, it's a Shadman poster

It evolved, like all languages do.
Vulgar Latin is just a (bad) name for spoken Latin. Written and spoken languages have always been different.

All Romance languages share features not found in Classical Latin, therefore the direct forefather of all the Romance languages is Vulgar Latin.

Worth mentioning, the modern Italian language derives from the dialect in Tuscany.

>from before Rome turned up, and over time these merged with Latin.
The other Italic languages like Umbrian and Oscan died off because of Rome's expansion. They didn't influence Latin that much, but for example the word "bōs" (cow, bull, ox) is
probably borrowed from Sabellic, since PIE *gʷ yields Latin "v".
So compare Latin "vita" to Oscan "biitam" (accusative), Lithuanian "gyvata", and Greek "biotos".

Cognates to Latin "bōs":
Greek bous
Sanskrit gaus/gauh/go [the lemma form is given as "go" but the nominative is "gauh" or "gaus". Strange, but I don't know much about Sanskrit.]
Old Armenian kov
English cow
Umbrian bum (accusative)

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