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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600 (Hardcover)
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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600 (Hardcover)
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Classical Latin appears to be without regional dialects, yet Latin
evolved in little more than a millennium into a variety of
different languages (the Romance languages: Italian, French,
Spanish, Portuguese etc.). Was regional diversity apparent from the
earliest times, obscured perhaps by the standardisation of writing,
or did some catastrophic event in late antiquity cause the language
to vary? These questions have long intrigued Latinists and Romance
philologists, struck by the apparent uniformity of Latin alongside
the variety of Romance. This book, first published in 2007,
establishes that Latin was never geographically uniform. The
changing patterns of diversity and the determinants of variation
are examined from the time of the early inscriptions of Italy,
through to late antiquity and the beginnings of the Romance
dialects in the western Roman provinces. This is the most
comprehensive treatment ever undertaken of the regional
diversification of Latin throughout its history in the Roman
period.
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