What language was spoken in italy around 200 ad?

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zafir

The official language in 200AD was Latin as that area was still part of the Roman Empire. Italy, the country as we know it today, didn't come into existence until the 19th century.

nemeczek

latin

Rita P

Latin...in 200 AD there was the Roman Emperor
The Western Roman Empire met its end in 476 and the Eastern Roman Empire in 1453.

paixfpn

latin. only latin

dingomi

hi because in that time was the roman empyre the language in italy and in all europe was latin.
when the west roman empire in the 453 fall off in all europe with the barbarian invasion the language start to be different. but some language same the spanish, portoguese franch italian and romanian have preserved a lot of words with latin origine for this are called neolatine languages
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.Laura

They did not spoke italian for sure...as you well know that Italy exist only since 1861....so definatly not italian...they spoke latin obviously

Commedia Dantesca

Latin.
But as the Roman Empire spread in hundreds of colonies and territories, and slaves were brought into Rome's Territory from all over, several other languages and dialects were spoken.

The Italian language known nowadays was in a way picked from Florence out of the dialects available around 1800. A famous Italian writer from Milano, Alessandro Manzoni, writing his major masterpiece "I Promessi Sposi" when he came to edit the script he said he would go and "wash his book by the river Arno", meaning he would make a journey and correct the language according to what spoken in Florence (where the river Arno is).
Italy is one Country since 1861.

Diego

Latin... (Latino in Italian)
was spoken in all the europe..FRANCE GERMANY SPAIN, ENGLAND, ROMANIA, TURKEY, GREECE ....

WAS AS THE ENGLISH OF TODAY ..
AND NOW WE, Italian, MUST SPEAK ENGLISH.. :(

The LATIN become Italian only afther DANTE ALIGHIERI (around 1300), was a Florentine poet of the Middle Ages.
His central work, the Divina Commedia, is often considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

steve the seed

Canadian.

warm hearted guy

Actually before I read your comments I thought Latin, but even moreso Greek. There were many settlers from Greece in Italy. I've spent time in Siciliy and most of the ruins are Greek influenced. So I'd say Latin and Greek.

Emily W

back in 2oo ad there was no ital. the italians back then were known as Etruscans and there were hundeds of colonies all throughout italy. here are some they could be

Albanian
Arabic, Judeo-Tripolitanian
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Cimbrian
Corsican
Hersian
Kurdish
Maltese
Messapic

Other O

roman

I'M NOT ON A DIET!!!

"i would assume it's Italian because it's in Italy!"

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