Why did Latin die off?

>>2378701
nationalism

It took longer to die off than most realize, with Latin being the language of academia and religion well into the 1600's.

but it mostly fell out of vernacular favor because of the natural evolution of languages over time, and that the Roman Empire didn't just suddenly force conquered peoples to stop using their language and start using Latin, the language was mostly only used at the government level during the Republic/Empire, with the locals still speaking Greek, Aramaic, etc

I'd argue that Italian is the natural linguistic evolution of Latin as time passed, in much the same way that Modern English is just an evolution of Middle English you'd read in the Canterbury Tales.

>>2378701
It didn't

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages

Black and Arab DNA turned the once Nordic inhabitants of southern Europe into mixed race mutts. This caused the original Nordic Latin speakers to die out, taking the language with them.

>>2379074
This is like saying Neanderthals didn't die out because Homo Sapiens have 3% Neanderthal blood

>>2379269
>I'd argue that Italian is the natural linguistic evolution of Latin as time passed,
All Romance languages are.

>>2379281
meant to quote
>>2378808

>>2378808
>this
Entirely true; also as nationalism began to become a thing and romance languages definitively split from each other (the second maybe caused the first somewhat) the church and academia decided to "get with the times" and use modern languages more. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is part of it for sure

Btw, Italian is more derivative of vulgar Latin than what OP is probably thinking of, but I see what you mean. I wonder how much the barbarian incursions changed the language (Lombards and shit)

>>2378701
Because it sounds gay when spoken.

>>2379269

I'd say the Romance languages have far more than a 3% latin influence.

>>2379407
This. Latin looks cool as fuck on paper but sounds like shit when spoken.

>>2378701
I think Its cause people started using roman latin again during the renaissance instead of the one most people had been using which had evolved from the original

so people couldn't understand the reborn Latin and both died out