History of Spanish and Reasons for Learning

How many languages are there in
the world?

• It is difficult to have an exact count due to :

→Language varieties ( dialects of the same
language or different languages?)
→New languages are discovered often ( Amazon
area, Papua New Guinea etc)

→Languages disappear when the last speaker dies

Families of languages

• Languages are related
• Languages change and develop, but they have a common

language they originate from.

Romance Language Family

Where does Latin come from?

Latin is the origin language for Spanish.
• It was the language of the Roman Empire!

Romance Language- a language that has Latin as their origin language.
---Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan

Latin is now a dead language! (YES! languages are alive!)
-it is no longer spoken!
-a language dies when there are no more people alive that speak a language.

Ruins of the Roman Empire

What was the capital of the Roman Empire?
Rome
The center of what used to be the Roman Empire is what
country today?-Italy