Latin commands thread

[TITVS SABATINVS AQVILIVS]

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Salue Shaun,<br>
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the "w" / "v" (and th "k" / "c" too) changing is a really interesting matter: in Italy it seems that changing happened just in the cities of the Empire, while in the country land communities, more isolated, it lasted, first in the latin, then in the italian language till about 1800... BUT, in Rome exist yet some 1700/1800 marble tabs in Italian that show the use in the writing (and so also in the speaking) of the "u" (the italian equivalent of the english "w") instead of the "v". The most famous one is the marble tab at the corner between via Frattina and via del Gambero.<br>
Moreover, some rustic idioms in the Lazio region, used especially in some Rome neighboroughs yet, show the same ancient use of the "u" ("w") instead of the "v". That language "purity" is dued probably to the "isolation" of the country towns in the centuries till nowadays.<br>
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Vale,<br>
Titus Sabatinus Aquilius<br>
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