Main Stages of History of Romance-Germanic Languages Development

Main Stages of History of Romance-Germanic Languages Development.

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• •A language family is a group of different languages that all descend from a particular common language. The one language that generated those other languages in its family is known as a protolanguage.

• •Thomas Young first used the term Indo-European in 1813, deriving it from the geographical extremes of the language family:from Western Europe to North India.
• •The most important of the ancient languages was Latin, the official language of ancient Rome.

• •Romance languages are the group of related languages all derived from later Latin, or Vulgar Latin, within historical times from the 3rd century CE onward and forming a subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The major languages of the family include French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish,and Romanian, all national languages.

• •The history of the Germanic group begins with the appearance of what is known as the
• Proto-Germanic (PG) language which is the linguistic ancestor or the parent-language of the Germanic group.
• It is supposed to have split from related IE languages sometime between the 15th and 10th c.B.C.
• •The would-be Germanic tribes belonged to the western division of the IE speech community.

• The Romanic, Romance, or Neo-Latin languages descend directly from Vulgar Latin (also called Proto-Romanic or Proto-Romance)
• •Germanic languages derive from an alleged primitive Germanic, Common Germanic, or even Proto-Germanic.

• •Primitive or Proto-Germanic, although never documented, for it has been reconstructed by comparison to the other Indo-European languages and through the evidence of its succedent languages, presents an archaic phase.

• •Romans and Germanic peoples. Greek and Latin, the only literary languages of that time, had for this very reason a superior hierarchic status regarding vulgar languages, both Romance and Germanic. The vulgar languages have developed as literary languages according to the Greco-Latin model.

• • The Romance/Germanic period has a fundamental importance to the genesis of the Westem Civilization, since it is exactly at this stage that the crossing between the two basic cultures that form this civilization takes place: the Greco-Roman-Christian culture and the Germanic culture.

• •During the primitive Latin/Germanic period, most of the lexical fund of these languages was autochthonous, with a few words borrowed from Celtic or Greek (in the case of Latin). In the Romance/Germanic phase, the exchange of cultural and ideological values has implied the exchange of words.

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