Council of Tours (813)

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The Council of Tours was convened in May 813 by Charlemagne in the city of Tours .

The main merit of the Council of Tours is to have established a language that the people can understand for sermons in churches, while Latin has been retained as the written and ceremonial language of the Mass. With this official church distinction between the various local developments of spoken Vulgar Latin on the one hand and written Latin on the other, a diglossic consciousness becomes evident; H. the general knowledge of a language community that two languages ​​exist for different purposes. In the following, the local Romansh ways of speaking were no longer generally understood as varieties of classical Latin and named accordingly, but mostly referred to as "Romansh". In a certain way, the Council of Tours marked the birth of the Romance languages .