Twelfth century Italians wouldn’t be able to understand a native speaker speaking modern Italian, most likely. Even when time travel stories try to do something about the language barrier without handwaving it, they always forget how quickly even the same language changes over centuries. We would neither understand nor be understood by anybody speaking medieval English.
Twelfth century Italians wouldn’t be able to understand a native speaker speaking modern Italian, most likely. Even when time travel stories try to do something about the language barrier without handwaving it, they always forget how quickly even the same language changes over centuries. We would neither understand nor be understood by anybody speaking medieval English.