How Latin became Italian 🇮🇹

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How did Latin become Italian? What are the differences in pronunciation and morphology between Classical Latin and Modern Italian? And what is "Vulgar Latin" exactly? Is it the same as informal Latin or conversational Latin? Is Italian a natural language, or is it artificial? Did Latin have a vowel system of 9 qualities, as W. Sydney Allen (Vox Latina) professes, or is the Calabrese System a better pronunciation model? These questions and more will be answered!

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Vox Latina, by W. Sidney Allen
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The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, by JN Adams
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An Anthology of Informal Latin, 200 BC–AD 900: Fifty Texts with Translations and Linguistic Commentary, by JN Adams
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Social Variation and the Latin Language, by JN Adams
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Early and Late Latin: Continuity or Change?, by JN Adams
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Late Latin and Early Romance in Spain and Carolingian France (Arca Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs, by Roger Wright
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Breve grammatica storica dell’italiano, by Paolo D’Achille
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00:00 Latin to Italian
00:20 What this video will cover
01:32 Sources
03:01 Ancient Language Institute: Now with OLD ENGLISH!
04:25 Starting Point: Latin
06:01 "Vulgar" Latin
12:40 Why Italian does NOT come from "Vulgar" Latin
19:05 When Latin separated from Romance
20:08 Italian...what is it?
21:09 Vowel changes from Latin to Italian
33:37 Vowel Breaking
37:09 Why au doesn't become uo
39:40 Rizotonic vowel breaking
42:42: i to e to i again
43:23 Semivowels
46:09 Consonants
50:58 Intervocalic p t c s
58:09 Short i before vowels
1:01:17 Loss of final s
1:02:16 Raddoppiamento fonosintattico
1:05:02 Morphology & syntax
1:08:12 Accusative for singulars, nominative for plurals?
1:10:07 Loss of neuter gender
1:11:11 Origin of the Italian future tense
1:13:45 Conjunction "that" che
1:14:37 Just the beginning...
1:16:00 Gentle Ben