Literally the center of the Roman Empire

Yet its people today don't speak Latin.

What happened?

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But they do speak Latin. Italian is what Latin became

Latin is a chud language

italian is just vulgar latin
the avarege roman citizen wouldnt speak proper latin as its written, but a vulgar latin that is similar to italian

Latin was just a written language. The Romans spoke Romanesco and Napoletano.

arab invasion. We speak arab and are muslim

*arabic si dice quando si parla della lingua COGLIONE

Italian is watered down vulgar Latin with a bunch of German and Arab loanwords.

see it all happened when the savage lombards came to seize power of the italian peninsula and tried to genocide the romans. they almost succeeded and purged the northern romans and settled the grim flatlands of Po the peoples that are today known as polentoni. afterwards they turned their gaze towards the south but couldn't purge the southoid chads and afterwards they started larping as the real romans instead calling the southoids terroni and bullying them for centuries. they also started eating honey.

>fought every invader tooth and nail, all kicked out in the end
>the only reason Romance Languages are still relevant today
>conquered entire continents
>spread Latin culture far and wide
>spread Roman Christianity to the whole world
>dicked down barbarian chicks from California to East Asia
>highly disciplined armies routinely defeated forces several times their size
friendly reminder Iberians are the true heirs of Roman Civilization, not Italians

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They speak Italian which is Latin for modern ages.

>AYEEEEEEE GENOA-SAMA PLEASE LEND ME ONE MORE BILLION DUCATS I ALREADY SPENT ALL THE SILVER IN PERU TO FIGHT A BUNCH OF SWAMP DWELLING GERMANS

>*gets half his peninsula conquered by a small band of drunk Catalonians*
>"hail Aragon, but at least we wuz romanz n shit"

il pazzo

Why not just say you all are, why does it need to be a pissing contest?
And France blows anyone out of the water in criteria you listed.

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no more brother wars

fuck france

Genoan wallets filling my country with their Big Fat Loans...

They are the pinnacle of Latin worls for past 1500 years.
>known for excellent food and wine
>speaks a beautiful Latin language
>total cultural victory
>the most successful military of any existing nation
>beautiful people

I'm not against Italy or Portugal or Spain or Greece or anyone in European Mediterranean and they own it to Roma and Italia but reality is reality.

didn't read

Don't axt like a retard, you are damaging yourself more than me.

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Helo

not really though

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vatican niggas speak latin

Having a billion shit skins and sudacas speaking your language is not a good thing.