Diferencies ente revisiones de «Llatín británicu»

In most of what was to become [[England]], the [[Anglu-Saxon settlement of Britain|Anglu-Saxon settlement]] and the consequent introduction of Old English appears to have caused the extinction of Vulgar Latin as a vernacular.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 |last=Charles-Edwards |first=T. M. |year=2012 |isbn=0198217315 |page=88}}</ref> The Anglu-Saxons, a [[Germanic peoples|Germanic people]], spread westward across Britain in the fifth to seventh centuries leaving under British rule only [[Cornwall]] and [[Wales]] in the southern part of the country,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historien) |editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins |editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins |editor3-first=Menna |editor3-last=Baines|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|editor4-link=Peredur Lynch|displayeditors=4 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopaedia of Wales|The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales]] |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6 |page=915}}</ref> and [[Hen Ogledd]] in the north.<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=David|title=The Welsh wars of independence: c.410-c.1415|year=2005|isbn=0-7524-3321-0|pp=16-17}}</ref> The demise of Vulgar Latin in the face of Anglu-Saxon settlement is very different from the fate of the language in other areas of western Europe subject to [[Migration Period|Germanic migration]], for example France, Italy and Spain where Latin and the Romance languages continued.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Anglu-Saxon World |last=Higham |first=Nicholas |coauthor=Ryan, Martin|year=2013 |isbn=0300125348 |page=70}}</ref> The likely reason is that in Britain there was a greater collapse in Roman institutions and infrastructure, leading to a much greater reduction in the status and prestige of the indigenous romanized culture: this meant that the indigenous population was more likely to abandon their languages in favour of the higher status language of the Anglu-Saxons.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Anglu-Saxon World |last=Higham |first=Nicholas |coauthor=Ryan, Martin|year=2013 |isbn=0300125348 |pages=109-111}}</ref>

 

[[Image:Memoria.Voteporigis.Protictoris.jpg|thumb|right|Rubbing of a 6th-century stone inscription in Latin found in West Wales in 1895: "[[Vortiporius|Monument of Voteporigis the Protector]]".<ref>{{Citation|last=Laws|first=Edward|year=1895|contribution=Discovery of the Tombstone of Vortipore, Prince of Demetia|contribution-url=http://books.google.com/books?id=EgFPAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA303|title=Archaeologia Cambrensis|volume=XII|series=Fifth Series|publisher=Chas. J. Clark|publication-date=1895|publication-presta=London|pages=303 &ndash; 306|url=}}</ref> According to [[Thomas Charles-Edwards]], the inscription provides "decisive evidence" of how long Vulgar Latin was spoken in this part of Britain.<ref>{{cite book |title=Early Christian Ireland|last=Charles-Edwards |first=Thomas |year=2000 |isbn=0521363950 |pages=168-169}}</ref>]]

 

===Highland zone===

 

Although Latin therefore continued to be spoken by many of the British elite in western Britain,<ref>Woolf, Alex, "The Britons: from Romans to Barbarians" pp.371-373 in {{cite book |title=Regna and Xentes: The Relationship Between Llate Antique and Early Medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World |last=Goetz |first=Hans-Werner, et al.(eds.) |year=2012 |isbn=9004125248}}</ref> by about 700 it had died out.<ref name= C-Y>{{cite book |title=Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 |last=Charles-Edwards |first=T. M. |year=2012 |isbn=0198217315 |page=75}}</ref> The incoming Latin-speakers from the lowland zone seem to have rapidly assimilated with the existing population, and adopted Brittonic.<ref name= Higham168/> The continued viability of British Latin may have been negatively affected by the loss to Old English of the areas where it had been strongest: the Anglu-Saxon conquest of the lowland zone may have indirectly ensured that Vulgar Latin would not survive in the highland zone either.<ref>{{cite book |title=Wales and the Britons, 350-1064 |last=Charles-Edwards |first=T. M. |year=2012 |isbn=0198217315 |page=89}}</ref> This assimilation to Brittonic appears to have been the exact opposite to the situation in France, where the collapse of towns and migration of large numbers of Latin-speakers into the countryside apparently caused the final extinction of Gaulish.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}-->