Which Romance language is the purest?

[Mens-Sarda]

All Romance languages are very distant from Latin considering that Latin was still used in 5th century A.D. in original form.

Romance languages are a product of "barbarisation" Germanic, Slavic peoples contributed to it's destruction.

Italian for example is a joke of a language, amalgamation of several languages.

Keep in mind that the Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin, the language of the common people, not from Classical Latin, the language of the great authors spoken by the noble class.

[Ruggery]

Keep in mind that the Romance languages evolved from Vulgar Latin, the language of the common people, not from Classical Latin, the language of the great authors spoken by the noble class.

And what was the original Latin?

[Mens-Sarda]

And what was the original Latin?

Both.

Languages evolve, they change according the culture of who speaks them. The English spoken by a person of the slums is not the same spoken by Queen Elizabeth, but it's a simplified version of the same language.

Also the Classical Latin was an evolution, a simplified version of Archaic Latin.

P.S.

Spoiler!

Under some aspects Sardinian seems to have inherited few features directly from Archaic Latin.

Example :

• Classical : mihi (to me)
• Archaic : mihei
• Sardinian : a mie
  

• Classical : tibi (to you)
• Archaic : tibei
• Sardinian : a tie (the fall of intervocalic B is very common in Sardinian)

Latin Verb "Facere" (to do) - Classical/Archaic pronunciation "fakere"

We can find the identical pronunciation in Sardinian (Nuorese) "fachere" or in Logudorese as "faghere"

Latin Present Indicative :

• Classical : facio, facis, facit, facimus, facitis, faciunt
• Archaic (1) : facio, facis, facit/d, facimos, faciteis, faciont
• Archaic (2) : faceo, faces, facet/d, faceimos, faceteis, faceont

Notice the highlighted letters, and now see the same verb in Sardinian :

• Nuorese : faco, fàches, fàchet, fachímos, fachítes, fàchen
• Logudorese : fatto, fàghes, fàghet, faghímus, faghídes, fàghen

Another interesting thing from Archaic Latin is the switch from T to D in 3rd person singular, in Logudorese the T of 3rd person is pronounced with a sound between T and D, in Nuorese instead like a clear T.