Pioneers and representatives of the Spanish Language
We can define language as a complex human activity, which has a double function: that of communication and representation. Although the first is the fundamental one, the second is closely related to it, and complements it, since language, in addition to being an inter -interrelated arbitrary and conventional signs system, also constitutes a manifestation of reality itself. It is the second league in the world for the number of native speakers.
“If you speak to a person in a language he understands, the words will go to his head. If you speak to him in his language, the words will go to his heart."
Nelson Mandela.
The history of the Spanish language usually dates back to the pre -Roman period, since it is possible that the pre -Roman languages of the Iberian Peninsula exerted influence on the Hispanic Latin that would confer several peninsular romance languages several of its characteristics. The history of the Spanish language is usually divided conventionally into three periods: medieval Spanish, middle Spanish and modern Spanish. The history of Spanish refers to the chronological description of cultural, historical, political and social influences that influenced linguistic facts, refers to chronological description and succession of changes that occurred within the system of the language itself.
In Spain the Iberian Peninsula is located, located in the southwest area of Europe, although it was not known as Spain instantly. About the sixth century before the common era, a nomadic tribe of famous central Europe like the Celts moved to the area, and mixed with the inhabitants of the Peninsula. The result was a new town called the Celtiberos, and they talked a form of the Celtic language.
Hispanic people learned Latin from Roman settlers, soldiers and merchants. Soon, a new language formed that was a mixture of traditional Latin and the Celtiberian language. This was the beginning of the history of Spain. The new mixed language looked a lot of traditional Latin, more also many words from other languages are also used.
Throughout the four century, Hispania was invaded by the Visigoths and Germanic tribes of Eastern Europe. It was the Visigoths who transformed the Hispanic monarchy into Catholicism. These events influenced the language, plus none as when Arabic speaking Muslims conquered the area. Throughout their occupation, many of the inhabitants of the country learned Arab and, finally, the Latin vulgar subsisted in certain kingdoms of the north still occupied by Christians.
Spanish is also characterized by its constant use of pronoun, and the living use of the subjunctive. Among the inherited characteristics of Latin, syntax and syntactic procedures to clarify, qualify or turn names, and, therefore, subjects, to complete sentences, to complete sentences,.
Medieval Spanish includes the period from the first texts in the 10th century to the beginning of the readjustment of the consonant system towards the fourteenth century. The medieval Castilian of the IX to XIII centuries was in a transitional situation between the late Latin finals and the beginnings of the average Spanish. In certain aspects, medieval Spanish is closer to other romance languages of the Peninsula than modern Spanish;for instance:
I distinguished between deaf and sound fricatives, similar to those that continue to exist in Catalan, French and Portuguese. Only the JudeoSpar.
There was sound [h] from initial f-Latin, which would progressively disappear in medium Spanish.
He admitted that the clitic pronouns were in postverbal position if the verb was conjugate, as continues to happen in some variants of Asturleonese.
To form the "composite times", I used the verbs to be and see (having ’), the first with inacusative verbs and the second with inenergative verbs.
The expansion began in 1790 when Spain and Britain signed the conventions of Nutka, for which Spain renounced any right over a vast territory of North America constituted by Idaho, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Yukón and Alaska, preventing the progressFrom the Spanish empire to the northwest of America. Even so, some geographical names in Spanish still last there. At the end of the 18th century, only three million Latin Americans spoke Spanish;However, after the emancipation of Latin America of the Spanish Empire, the new governments favored the extension of Spanish.
Speaking about the changes, in Spanish, as in the other romance languages, it could derive a form of Latin that had undergone a criollization process, which made the order of more fixed constituents and more tending to the syntactic order. The same Creole could have favored the loss of nominal flexion both or more than the phonetic changes that affected late Latin. The loss of case marks increased ambiguity and made a slightly less synthetic language to the Spanish than Latin.
Pioneers and representatives of the Spanish language
One of the best and most recognized is Miguel de Cervantes, a Spaniard from Madrid whose capacity led him to create magnificent literary works such as Don Quijote de la Mancha. Apart from that, he was also the creator of stories designed for the theater.
Lope de Vega was also one of the great lyric of the Castilian language and author of several novels and long narrative works in prose and verse. It is attributed about 3000 sonnets, three novels, four short novels, nine epic, three didactic poems, and several hundred comedies.
Federico García Lorca is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the Spanish language, as well as one of the authors who marked the top of the Spanish theater of the twentieth century.
These are three of the main representatives of the Spanish language, each made a different contribution and, even so, they are very important for their history.
"The most difficult problem to solve in practice is language. Spanish language writers, those here and those there, we don’t know even the true names of things. Ours is a fabulously effective language, but also fabulously forgotten ”.
"Gabriel Garcia Marquez".
In conclusion, Spanish is the most diffusion romance language in today’s world. It is spoken in almost the entire Iberian Peninsula, in the southwest of U.S.A., throughout Mexico, throughout Central America and South America except for Brazil and Guayanas and is the language of a minority group of Philippines speakers.
From the strictly linguistic point of view, Spanish is a family of fifty -eight languages or varieties, which constitute a chain of linguistic solidarity.
And as Gabriel García Márquez said: “It cannot be said where a better Spanish is spoken, because there is no Spanish, but many."
Bibliographies
- Portal: Spanish Language.
- Wikipedia
- CENTROGABO.org
- digital library.JCy.it is
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