Capitolo 16
own language, while the German favors the guttural one. In a paper on the
teaching of modern languages to our schools, Teacher the says:[14 of Grandgent]
"There is usually any attempt it made to teach some French sounds but _u_ and
the four nasal vowels; the whole rest is unquestioningly replaced by the
Vocal English and consonants that they resemble almost them to." The
substitution of sounds from his/her own language of one in to speak a foreigner
you touch with the language and the changes in voice-flex, it is more numerous and more
it marked if the man that learns the new language is without education and acquires
it in relationships casual from a man without education that gaily speaks.
This was the state of things in the Roman provinces of southern Europe
when the Goths, Lombards and the other peoples from the north gradually
crossed the frontier and fixed in the territory to Latin-speak
peoples. In the sixth century, for example, the Lombards in Italy, the
It sends in immunity in France and the Visigothic one in Spain they are able each gives to the Latin
what they spoke a particular torsion to them, and out of that Latin
come to Italian, out of the second, the language of France, and out of the
third, Spanish. This initial impulse toward the development of the long Latin
different lines in Italy, France and Spain, were clearly strengthened from
the differences in climate, in the temperaments of the three peopleses in
their ways of the life, and in political and social experiences them. These
centrifugal strengths, so to speak, became real because the political one
and social obligations that had now contained together Italy, France and Spain were
loosened, and accordingly communication among the provinces was less
frequent, and the influence that standardizes some official Latin in Rome
stopped holding Latin a thing of uniform in the whole empire.
One naturally asks because Latin it survived to everybody, because the languages of the
Germanic and victorious peopleses gave him way. In it replies to this question it
it is commonly said that the most appropriate survived, that the superiority of Roman