Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and the Romance Languages by Joseph B. Solodow, is a fascinating, if not a somewhat technical examination of Latin’s evolution. The author takes us through classical Latin and its spoken counterpart in antiquity, then Vulgar Latin, Romance, and finally, the evolution of Romance into French, Italian and Spanish.
Perhaps the most fascinating part of this work is at the end,
when Solodow examines the first written versions of French, Italian, and
Spanish. The author helps us to see the
modern language emerge from the matrix of Latin with great clarity.
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