Is it true standard Italian developed directly from Latin?I mean ofc the roots are derived but the sentence structure is not as variable and the introduction of articles had to come from somewhere else.
Sardinian and vulgar Latin only I believe.
>>25231196But wasn't 'vulgar Latin' just the basic Latin used by the people, where did the articles come from?
>>25231193I'm italian and I was about to go through the history of the language but ffs it's documented, just look it up. Nobody knows shit about italian history here, I've seen the threads about Dante. Embarassing.
Porca madonna inculata
every Romance language has articles even Sardinian, it's one of the most common developments and usually follows a very common patter i.e demonstrative pronoun becomes the article, same had happened in ancient Greek since Homer, same in basically all Romance languages though IIRC there's some differences both on the demonstrative chosen but also Romanian is the oddball
>>25231193Directly from the vulgar Latin of the early Middle Ages. Every region had (and still has) their own dialect derived from vulgar Latin, then the Tuscan one was eventually officialized as Italian because of its literary prestige (thanks to Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, etc)
>>25231657S-sorry. I kinda like tagliatelle though!
>>25231679Ok that makes sense.
