LIN203H1 Lecture 11: lec11.pdf
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English has borrowed words from both latin and its descendant french. Since many changes took place between french and latin, a loanword"s form may depend on what stage of latin or french it"s borrowed from. English words that were borrowed at different times. Thus, knowing some of those changes can help us see connections between. Latin is part of the italic subfamily of indo-european. In ancient times, there were many italic languages spoken in italy, but latin is the only one with living descendants today. The standard dialect of the roman empire is what we call classical latin. This continued role of classical latin after it was no longer spoken. The role of latin as a literary language and ecclesiastical language. Dialects of latin spoken by the common people were known as vulgar latin . Vulgar latin spread across the empire as italians colonized the provinces . Thus the different regional dialects of vulgar latin each separately evolved into.
