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ORIGINS OF VERNACULAR LANGUAGE

ROBERTO LOPEZ JR

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY

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Many factors played a role for the rise of the vernacular language. The spread Christianity and technology advancements were two of the most important factors that helped vernacular language Grow well passed Latin importance to the daily lives of the people. I believe that most important contribution to the rapid rise of vernacular language was the people’s desire to make Christianity available to the general public. Because they were most versed in studies of the bible and science, it was the monks who made a system to help translate the bible from Latin into vernacular language. Once readings and teachings were translated into the vernacular language many more people switched over to Christianity.

Even with the bible being translated into the vernacular language began in the tenth century among the Slavic Orthodox Christian community (Bouchard, 2004), even though Europe Latin was still most common among educated people until the twelfth century (Sayre, 2010). The shift to vernacular language was available to everyone not only to Christians. Vernacular language was an important way to help identify a culture, which not only help bind a culture together but also emphasizes the difference to different cultures (Vincze, 2009).

The French were the first people to spread the vernacular language in their literary writings. The vernacular language spread through all of Europe by the fourth teen century. The change over from Latin to vernacular language presented a huge movement toward the interest of courtly literature. It gave people greater freedom to expressing their feelings, for example in the poems of troubadours about courtly love (Sayre, 2010).

In addition technological advancements and papermaking techniques were important for the up rising of the language. Gutenburg’s movable letters and a printing process were important for the spread...