Wednesday, January 13, 2010

As the empire collapsed Latin had already spread into the most extenses of the world. Latin was learned by all as it had to be and was spoken with the same dialect as it was in Rome. It wasn't until the end of the empire when the Germanic invaders came into the empire that the language started changing as the dialects of the invaders soon integrated with the classical language of Latin. The stresses of the words started to change and the syntactical change started to form as well as it started to construct itself off of the original Hebrew it began to change from the what the bible would have originally sounded like. Even the end of the sentence annunciation was no longer there, and this had a drastic affect on how it was written and read. There are many differences in the Vulgate nativity as well, and this is apparent in Matthew and Luke. Matthew does not talk about the angels while Luke talks about it comparing the heavens and earth, while Matthew says nothing.

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