History of the Spanish Language covered from different points of view
Introduction
Good morning, today I will be presenting an essay on the history of the Spanish language where different points will be covered either, the origin, its evolution, day -to -day use and others.
Source
The basis of our language is the vulgar Latin from Rome, this is not the one that can still be seen in the vast writings of Latin, but it was the one used in the squares and streets. This spread in Spain at the end of the third century to.C., which was imposed on the Iberian and Basque languages. If we want to know the true origin of our language we must imagine the men and women of the empire, and that also the differences between one linguistic variety are important, since in the phonic aspect the literary Latin differentiated ten vowels (five long and fivebrief), and in those differences the meaning of a word could be changed. That trait of persistence on the accent still is still present in our language today.
And, speaking about its propagation until its evolution to what we call modern languages. The Spanish language originated in southwest Europe, in the place known as the Iberian Peninsula, the Iberians, began to mix with the Celts, nomadic peoples of Central Europe, as a result of that union the Celtiberics emerged, which communicated in a formCeltic.
In the government of the Roman Empire in 19 to.C., The region became known as Spain, and its inhabitants learned the Latin of Roman merchants, colonizers and administrators. When classic Latin is mixed with the pre-Roman languages of the Iberians, Celts and Carthaginians, a language called Latin vulgar appeared, it was characterized by the basics of Latin, although it takes and adds words from other languages.
After the Eastern Europe tribes invaded Spain, Latin continued to be the official language of government and culture until an Islamic group called "Los Mooos" completed the conquest of the region. After that, the Spanish Christian kingdoms were able to reconquer Spain and resumed the linguistic, political and culturally. As the Christians moved to the south, the vulgar Latin became dominant, and particularly the Castilian, a dialect that originates in the northern plains, it took to the regions of the south, east and towards Andalusia. The language that results from all these conquests and changes is a hybrid because Spanish takes many words from the Mozarabic, it is also estimated that modern Spanish has approximately 4000 words with Arab roots.
Languages
Languages or language is the ability to emit sounds to express ideas or discuss some subject. As human language progressed over time with variations in the same.
The Spanish or Castilian language, also known as the romantic language, derives from Latin, this belongs to the Italian subfamily within the Indo -European complex, is the language of Spain and the other nations of Latin America except Brazil, Haiti and the Guyana.
Castilian or Spanish? This language is also known as Spanish for the reason for being the name of the first community that spoke this Romanesque modality in medieval times: Castilla.
There is a controversy in terms of language denomination;The Spanish term is recent and is not admitted by the many bilingual speakers of the Spanish State who consider that the terms: Valencian, Catalan, Galician and Basque, languages that are in turn officially considered within their territories, which propose to return toits oldest denomination, "Language of Castile".
In Spanish -American countries, this way of saying it has been preserved and they have no difficulty in referring to the terms "Spanish and Spanish". Then giving up the term we use today would give difficulty in recognizing our language which has been very open to tolerate influences that have contributed to their condition. On the other hand, the same right that Spaniards have to name Spanish as their language, that Argentines, Dominicans and Mexicans have to call it Argentina, Dominican and Mexican.
The dialects
Until the irruption of radio and television in society, which developed its fame in the second half of the last century, it was relatively easy to diagnose by phonetic habits and intonation, the belonging of a certain speaker to its corresponding dialectal area. Although differences are still giving differences, the copy of the norm in these media makes the relationship between speakers belong to different linguistic communities is not so clear.
The Iberian medieval linguistic map emerged linguistic varieties that some became languages and others, as time passed some dialects. From the fourteenth century, as a consequence of the conquest of Andalusia by the Castilians, the Andalusian that integrated some features of the Mozarabic as an authentic dialect of Spanish. The Extremadura, who began as a border variety of the Leonese and Spanish has established himself as one of the few dialects still identifiable for his implosive aspirations and his peculiar lexicon. In the 16th century, Spanish served as the basis for the creation of a Sabir or exchange language in the Mediterranean. A century later another one knows in the Caribbean, which is then crossed out to give way to the daddy of Curacao.
The current Castilian
Castilian is the most diffusion language in today’s world. There are almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, in the southwest of the United States, in Mexico, Central America … among others. This vast geographical diffusion results in an important range of dialect variants. This suggests that, during the centuries, Spanish is unquestionably the successor of Latin. Precisely the school works as a unifying organism that tends to speakers communicate with an increasing number of speakers in other regions. So although we are aware that the language inevitably evolves, we must also believe in the need to maintain a union that allows us easier and faster communication.
conclusion
We can see how the history and events of the powers of the world have been highly significant not only in our language, but culture, customs, history, that all have formed what the Spanish language is today, we go back from the era of the Roman Empire,to the conquest of the Arabs, reconquest of the Spaniards and the emergence of very close branches such as the Basque and the Portuguese.
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