Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin
Proto-Romance
sermō vulgāris
Native to	Roman Republic,Roman Empire
Era	Antiquity;developed intoRomance languages6th to 9th centuries
Language family	Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Latin Vulgar Latin
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Linguist List	lat-vul
Glottolog	None
TheRoman Empirein 117 AD

Vulgar Latin,orCommon Latin,is one of the two types ofLatin,an oldlanguagethat was spoken by theRomans.Vulgar Latin is not spoken anymore, but its manydialectseventually became what are nowRomance languages(such asItalian,Spanish,French,PortugueseandRomanian). Vulgar Latin was spoken by the regular people (vulgusin Latin means "common" ): farmers, workers and others without a great deal of education.

Origin

Classical Latinis the type ofLatinthat was first spoken by theRomans.As time went by, fewer and fewer people spokeClassical Latin,and in the end, the language changed to become Vulgar Latin. After a while, only scholars spoke Classical Latin, but books were still written in it.

Latin is no longer spoken as a native language, but many educational institutions teach it as asecond language,and manyRoman Catholic Churchofficials are fluent in it.

Grammar

Vulgar Latin is similar to Classical Latin but has some differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. Latin has five basiccasesfornouns,

Other websites

• Grandgent, Charles Hall,An introduction to vulgar Latin(1907)(.pdf,.djvu) onarchive.org