This class is an interesting one because I can barely make out what the old professor is saying, but I’m following along easily simply because of a paper that I wrote last year. Pretty much everything I wrote about, we have been talking about. I’ve been trying to go through the textbook, and it’s taking some work, but I am comprehending some of it. I’ll get there eventually!
Indo-European –> Italic –> Latino-Faliscan –> Latin –> Vulgar Latin
Vulgar Latin : any of the non-standard forms of Latin from which the Romance languages developed
La lingua vulgare : what the population spoke
1300 – scritto in Latino
Dante – scritto nella dialetta fiorentina e Latino
Latina era la lingua più importante ed illustre. Dante pensava che la dialetta era più importante di Latino perchè era la lingua delle gente.
Latina è una lingua ch’è creatata per le intelletuale.
I dialetti
- Piemontese
- Lombarda
- Ligure
- Emiliano-romoagnola
- Romagnola
- Gallico marhigiano
- Siciliano
- Fiorentina
- Milanese
- Calabrese
- Napoletana
- Sienese
- Genovese
- Toscana
- Veneto
- Ett…
La teoria dell’etrusco antenato del toscano, tuttavia, per quanto curiosa, ha ben poco peso, perché rimase sempre marginale..
**Non c’é una lingua pura
La stampa / Gutenburg’s printing press 1450: Cicero’s De Oratore possibly published first followed closely, of course, by the works of Boccaccio, Petrarca, and Dante
L’Accademia della Crusca: an Italian Society for scholars, and Italian linguist and philologists; founded in 1583; maintain the purity of the Italian language; 1612 l’Accademia published it’s first dictionary Vocabulario della lingua italiana
Dante’s De vulagri eloquentia written in Latin; the historical evolution of language,abandoned the books halfway through for unknown reasons
The Educated Momma 