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How was the Italian Language made/ created?

How was the Italian language created? how did it spread? (i know its a romance language, i need deeper information) help!

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1. The history of the Italian language is long, but the modern standard of the language was largely shaped by relatively recent events. The earliest surviving texts which can definitely be called Italian (or more accurately, vernacular, as opposed to its predecessor Vulgar Latin) are legal formulae from the region of Benevento dating from 960-963. Italian is most closely related to the other two Italo-Dalmatian languages, Sicilian and the extinct Dalmatian. The three are part of the Italo-Western grouping of the Romance languages, which are a subgroup of the Italic branch of Indo-European. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
2. It evolved from ancient Latin.