How did classical latin went nearly extinct right after fall

>>2640802
Why? People far off from Rome have little motivation to speak properly, when there's no direct influence coming from there and territories have fallen to autarky. You mostly only had contact with people in the general area, and you developed a common culture with in-jokes, stories, etc. After a couple generations it's a dialect that becomes its own thing.

The Christian Church had a religious motivation for keeping its Latin roots, as the only real reason it gained any legitimacy was through Roman adoption and toleration thereof.

>>2640802
>How did classical latin went nearly extinct right after fall of roman empire only to be on life support by christianity

Nobody in the empire spoke Classical Latin by the 2nd century BC. Noblemen sought to do so and would certainly know how to write using it throughout the period, but virtually nobody actually spoke it. Romano-Britons were apparently laughed at by others because they spoke a hypercorrect form of Latin to avoid looking like country bumpkins, even that wasn't quite Classical Latin. By the fall of the Roman Empire in the west people in different regions had their own local dialects and the language was diverting.

>>2640802
If you did one Google search you would get fine answers. Languages change over time, Latin only survived so long because it was taught and highly controlled and standardized by the Roman aristocracy.

>>2640923
>Latin only survived so long because it was taught and highly controlled and standardized by the Roman aristocracy
U wat m8?

No, Roman aristocracy spoke in Greek. Latin was seen as generally inferior.

>>2640926
>Roman aristocracy spoke in Greek

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>>2640960
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFohTu9n8_Q

Just for ease and convenience...

>>2640960
Yeah, Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman elite.

>>2640802
It did survive, that's why we have Spanish, French, Catalan, Italian, etc.

>>2640989
>Yeah, Greek was the lingua franca of the Roman elite.

Only the true cream of the crop. The average Roman nobleman living in the West wouldn't have known it to a high standard. If they had lived in the East they would have had it as their primary language.

>>2640994
Yes, pretty much anyone who had an education would speak Greek, so all nobles.

>>2640802
It's impossible for living languages to stay static. Combine time and isolation and you inevitably get new dialects and languages.

>>2640994
best teachers were greek or had been taught by greeks, so every teacher worth his salt would try and git gud in greek.

>this thread again

Fuck off with this shit.

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>>2640977
Some of you guys are alright, don't go to france tommorow

>>2641197
>so all nobles.

But that's fucking wrong. Most nobles weren't learned noblemen, they were provincial aristocracy. People like Seneca were the exception were the exception, not the rule. Only a few hundred people at most at any one time knew Greek and Latin to the standard needed to compose high level poetry, write panegyrics or critique legal texts in Classical Latin or converse in Greek. The average decurion or low-level provincial governor wouldn't have known much (if any) Greek at all if they were in any of the western provinces.

>HURRR Y DUN LANGUAGES STAY DE SAEM

Stop with these threads.

Came here to more or less say this
>>2640918