Does Latin refer to the ancient Roman script? Is it the same as modern Italian writing?

It was originally one of many dialects in ancient Italy, and was called Latium in ancient Rome and its surrounding areas. With the strength of Rome, the ancient Romans also spread Latin to areas outside Italy. At the same time, they also absorbed elements from other languages, especially ancient Greek. The present alphabet in western Europe, although called Latin alphabet, is still derived from ancient Greek.

There is no regional universality now.

The ancient Romans used Latin. After the Roman Empire split, daily Latin was gradually divided into Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Romanian and so on. (All belong to the Romanesque family of Indo-European languages). Therefore, Latin is the ancestor of Romans family. Latin was the common language of western Europe from ancient Rome to the end of the Middle Ages and even the Renaissance, and now all kinds of western European languages are deeply influenced by it.

Latin was originally the dialect of Latium (Italian for Lazio) in central Italy. Later, due to the expansion of the Roman Empire, Latin spread widely in the Empire and became the official language. After Christianity spread widely in Europe, Latin became more influential. From the Middle Ages in Europe to the beginning of the 20th century, Roman Catholicism was the common language, and most academic papers were written in Latin. Although only the Vatican still uses Latin, some academic words or articles, such as the naming rules of biological taxonomy, still use Latin.

Spanish belongs to Indo-European/Romanesque (Latin)/Romanesque.

It is also widely used in other parts of the world: Latin America 19 countries (except Brazil and Haiti) are using it; Four states in the United States also use Spanish as a common language.

Portuguese is a romantic language (also Latin).

Italian is a Romance language (Latin). It is closer to the original Latin than any other Romance language.

Because Italian retains a large number of Latin words, people who know Italian will feel deja vu when they see academic terms borrowed from Latin by other Indo-European languages.

French belongs to the Romance family of Indo-European family (Latin family) and originated from Latin.

Let's explain the difference in pronunciation.

Gaul seemed to be a Celtic-speaking region before the Roman conquest and the introduction of Latin. Gaul language family has also become the third branch of Celtic language family, alongside Idili language family (Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Isle of Man) and brissot Indonesian language family (Welsh, Cornish, Brittany).

Gaul outside the Alps (and now East provine) fell into Roman rule at the end of the 2nd century BC, and Caesar completely unified Gaul in 5 1 BC. The Gauls gradually gave up their Celtic language and learned the Latin used by the rulers. These Gauls are called Gaul Romans, and their Latin is slightly different from Italian.

The Latin brought to Gaul by the Romans was slightly different from the classical Latin of China used by the great Roman writers at that time. The former is a fairly common and slanderous Latin, and only a few written records have been preserved so far. French and all other Roman languages originated from this popular Latin used by the army and traffickers. Before the conquest of Gaul, this popular Latin was influenced by non-Latin languages. Christianity spread from the eastern part of the empire to the western part, adding more foreign elements, especially influenced by the Greek used to write the New Testament.

At the same time, the popular Latin, which has been popularized in the west, has changed in phonology and word formation, among which there is an accent law. Prolonging stressed vowels, shortening and weakening unstressed vowels and some consonants will eventually lead to the complete reorganization of Latin phonetic system. The internal changes of the language itself are likely to be strengthened by the Germanic invasion in the fifth century BC, which brought Germanic-speaking Goths and Franks into the Western Roman Empire. Strong stress is the characteristic of these languages. Although the invading Germans almost universally adopted the popular Latin used by the empire, they also injected a large number of words and even brought about syntactic readjustment. Some of these influences brought by Germanic people became the regional characteristics of several Romanesque languages, while others were widely adopted. The commonly used index is compass-North (North) South (South) East (East) West (West).

There are indications that the popular Latin preserved after the demise of the Western Roman Empire still maintains a complete system and is dispersed into independent units economically or politically. However, there are also signs that the pace of language changes in different emerging countries is gradually different. In fact, in terms of phonetic changes, France (the new Frankish kingdom that replaced Gaul) is at least the pioneer of language evolution.

France was the first Romanesque country to realize the obvious gap between the Latin used in church worship and official documents and the new language used by the masses. In 8 13 AD, Charlemagne clearly divided Latin and popular romance, and urged the church to use the latter in worship for the convenience of the public. In 842, the first document written in French was sworn in Strasbourg (Spanish and Italian didn't appear until a hundred years later).