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The collapse of the Roman Empire and the Dark Ages. They were referred to as the ‘Dark Ages’ because literacy and knowledge practically disappeared, except mainly for nobility and the Catholic church, which is why masses are still conducted in Latin.
When the Renaissance occurred, several regions had assimilated Latin into their native languages coining the term ‘Romantic’ languages, which include French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Regional fiefdoms became countries and adopted the indigenous languages of their areas as their national languages, opting for something other than Latin.
Well, the collapse of Roman civilisation had a lot to do with it. By the middle ages it was a language known only to the most learned men, such as nobility, holy men etc, and was never in common usage.
Many books such as the bible were only printed in Latin so that only the rich educated people could understand it. That way, priests could dictate the meaning if its passages without the common poor people drawing their own conculsions.
It didnt fade away. It transformed into french, spanish, portugese, english.. etc.
Remember how the big the roman empire was? Just imagine that just splitting up into their respective countries, and with that, they transformed the latin language into their liking.
Latin was destroyed by the rise of the nation-state, when individual national languages took over. Until the mid 1600’s, all educated people throughout Europe were expected to know some Latin, and certainly were expected to be able to write in it.
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