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Bosniensis
It is difficult to discuss about Italy nowdays.
I've received personal threats few times just because I've said that Italians aren't Romans but predominantly Germanic people.
You see history is written in the way that "everyone remains satisfied" both Winners and Loosers. Truth is painful.
Truth is however, that Constantinople has lost Italy in 545 A.D to Lombards and Ostrogoths, but that hurt pride of many modern Italians
who want to called themselves "Romans" and historians even avoid to mention that Constantinople as a capital of Rome since 3rd century, and
that Anatolia is the place where Troy is located, they avoid to mention Aeneas, people of Argos etc..
Same goes for modern Italian language that has 4 or 5 cases instead of 7 (Latin) or 8 (Greek). Italian language is inferior to those two
because it developed much faster unlike Latin and Greek that were in use for thousands of years and that's because Germanic people
invented their languages much much later when they get in contact with Romans.
People say: Italian is the closest language to Latin. That's incorrect. Italian is the most distant language to Latin language. Why?
When you compare languages you compare Grammar .. not Words. Words could be loaned easily to any language. You can't
loose 3 cases within 200 years. That's impossible. What is possible is that Italian is Lombard language that took many words from Latin.
Now we come to another thing. What happened to Latin? Well.. Caesar Flavius Heraclius Augustus (610-641) has decreed that
Latin language is no more official language of Roman Empire. That, Italy has fallen in hands of "barbarians" and that Latin populace is no more, and that previously
de-jure language "Greek" is now de-facto language.. so that even those who knew Latin eventually moved to Greek.
How can I explain Italians that in 6th century official language was Greek when they refuse to accept that fact that after 3rd and 4th century
Rome wasn't even a Capital City.
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