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Vernacular Language Spread
Allesia Prewitt
American Intercontinental University
Unit 2 Individual Project
Cultural Studies
Patricia O’Neill

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German language has spread throughout the 21st century. The Indo European languages are spoken by almost 3 billion native speakers. The Latin language is mainly spoken in churches and courts. This Latin language as spread the 13th, 14th and 15th century.

Choose one native language spoken in Europe, discuss the origins of the vernacular language and describe how the language spread.
German is the language I picked for my native language. German is the main spoken language with a lot of people including native and second common language speaks German is common in European Union. Most Germans live in the South Region of the world, Country Argentina, Canada, South Africa, Post-Soviet States, Russia and Kazakhstan, France, Australia, Chile and Italy. Vernacular Language was possible to raise and spread because many people
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Latin was common language spoken; in churches and court. Then there was a change vernacular language started to be use and it was helpful to religion area. In the 12th century writers use this language as an important part of poetry. This was used by troubadours and Trobairtz. In the 13th century vernacular languages was being used in the government and with legal documents in England and France in the 14 century it spread even more through Europe. In the 15th century, this language was established in literature and historical records. Vernacular spread quickly. Latin language is the bedrock of the language of western civilization. Latin is used in the creation of new words in modern languages of many different families, like English and biological taxonomy. The literature and learning in Latin was influenced by the Greek, for Western Europe in works of the Latin authors had enormous long-range

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