Latin vs Italian

[MinervaItalica]

non hai fatto latino a scuola vero? è una lingua piuttosto dolorosa

Ci sono lingue altrettanto dolorose: Il giapponese, l'arabo, l'ungherese, il greco antico...

Se si studia lo si impara come qualsiasi altra lingua.

[wvwvw]

you forgot the part where the Romans were Greek to begin with

According to the historical consensus of all Latin and Greek historians.

And saying the early Romans were Greeks isn't the same as saying "Roman were Greeks". Don't twist the meaning of the words.

[Desperado]

Ci sono lingue altrettanto dolorose: Il giapponese, l'arabo, l'ungherese, il greco antico...

Se si studia lo si impara come qualsiasi altra lingua.

Infatti l'ho imparato ma non lasciarti confondere dal fatto che la pronuncia del latino ecclesiastico è basata sull'italiano, una lingua dolce. Il latino aveva perlopiù suoni duri ed è solo dopo le invasioni barbariche che sono stati introdotti fonemi tipici delle lingue germaniche come 'c' o 'sc' dolce, la 'g' dolce invece viene dall'arabo (attraverso il francese).

[Desperado]

According to the historical consensus of all Latin and Greek historians.

And saying the early Romans were Greeks isn't the same as saying Roman Greeks. Don't twist the meaning.

The early Romans had no idea what a Greek was I'm afraid.

[Kriptc06]

Powerful?

Too me sounds more "magic", a language that fits more for the Middle Ages and Church related things
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastical_Latin

Yes, to me it does, full of declensions and suffixes and all, kinda pendant and archaic, cult, intelligent, it does sound like that to me

[Dandelion]

Hmmm the Greek is the mother of almost all European languages since the supposed Indo-Europeans which never really existed were the pre-historic Greeks who spread all around Europe and Asia. You better have a very good look about Latin and the influence of Greek in Latin language.

Correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't Cicero the man who said "we Romans speak corrupted Greek?"

Today's Greek is much closer to Koine than Italian is to Latin.

Greek has a much more complicated morphology and a significantly larger vocabulary.

Classical Greek is closer to modern Greek than Shakespearean English is to modern English.

Every language in Europe and half of those in the middle east derive from Greek which is both Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Messo-Asiatic.

You owe your entire alphabet to the Greeks. Over 50% of the words in English derive from Greek roots as do most of those in French and other Romance languages.

A few facts for you: The Byzantine empire was speaking Greek form longer than the Western Roman empire lasted. The Romans got their alphabet for the Western Greek of Italy. The Etruscan theory is only held by a minority of linguists. 50% of English derives form Greek roots and almost every word in Latin has a Greek root.

It is universally accepted by all linguists for example, that the Latin Equus and the English Horse both came from the Greeks.

In Hittite, Hippos is Hier. In Tocharian B it its Yakwe. In Old Irish its Ech.

The Greek word Equatai meaning Cavalry Men is inscribed in Linear-B dating to 1250 BC so is clearly the root of the Latin Equus.

Greek was spoken far longer than any iteration of latin, in Europe.