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Vulgar Latin was the Latin of the middle class. It was the Latin of people with some, but limited, schooling: the merchants, artisans, lower public officials and army officers, who were required to know how to read and write for practical purposes. The middle class was influential.
Feb 20, 2001 · Wright, in his own foreword, shares this view: ‘Classical Latin was spoken by almost nobody and written by only a few, whereas Vulgar Latin was spoken by millions of people over a period of a thousand years’ (p. ix). Yet in the four chapters on linguistic changes which form the core of this book, ‘Vulgar Latin’ seems really to mean ...
French ( français, French: [fʁɑ̃sɛ], or langue française, French: [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz], or by some speakers, French: [lɑ̃ŋ fʁɑ̃sɛ]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul ...
Ecclesiastical Latin, also called Church Latin or Liturgical Latin, is a form of Latin developed to discuss Christian thought in Late antiquity and used in Christian liturgy, theology, and church administration to the present day, especially in the Catholic Church. It includes words from Vulgar Latin and Classical Latin (as well as Greek and ...
Late Latin is the scholarly name for the form of Literary [citation needed] Latin of late antiquity. [1] English dictionary definitions of Late Latin date this period from the 3rd to the 6th centuries CE, [2] [3] and continuing into the 7th century in the Iberian Peninsula. [1] This somewhat ambiguously defined version of Latin was used between ...
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned as the main medium of scholarly exchange, as the liturgical language of the Church, and as the working ...
Pannonian Latin (alternatively Pannonian Romance) was a variant of Vulgar Latin that developed in Pannonia, but became extinct after the loss of the province. History [ edit ] Pannonia province in the Roman Empire in 125 Surviving fragment of a Roman military diploma found at Carnuntum (now in Austria ) in the province of Pannonia
