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Changes in vocabulary, syntax, and grammar. Medieval Latin had ceased to be a living language and was instead a scholarly language of the minority of educated men (and a tiny number of women) in medieval Europe, used in official documents more than for everyday communication.
Medieval Latin was a living language, not a dead one, a language rooted in evolving praxis both written and oral, and, above all, a language used by a heterogeneous population.
3 days ago · Latin language, Indo-European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and until comparatively recent times, Latin was the language most widely used in the West for scholarly and literary purposes.
- The Latin language is an Indo-European language in the Italic group and is ancestral to the modern Romance languages. During the Middle Ages and un...
- A “dead” language is one no longer learned as a first language or used in ordinary communication. Classical Latin, the language of Cicero and Virgi...
- Latin was the lingua franca of scientific work in the West during the Middle Ages, so Western scientists used Latin for naming species of organisms...
Apr 24, 2023 · The term Medieval Latin refers to Latin from c. 500 until c. 1500 CE. In the first few centuries, Medieval Latin defines texts which contrive to follow the rules of formal literary language, in contrast to Vulgar Latin, which describes the non-formal registers of spoken language.
We must differentiate Latin communication from vernacular communication (as Moran rightly does), and keep in mind that the majority of informal and conversational communication between moderately educated people (let alone the uneducated) living in the same country, and brought up with the same vernacular would have been in the native language.
- Terence Tunberg
- 2020
Medieval Latin contrasts similarly with the use of Latin down into the early modern and modern period, after the Renaissance and — especially in England — the Reformation. A gradual increase in the prestige of the everyday vernacular languages led these languages to be used in place of Latin in many of its earlier functions.
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The history of the Latin language is one of continual deviations from, or attempts at (re)adjustment to, a morphological and syntactical norm we call Classical Latin (CL). This chapter examines briefly the relationship between CL and Vulgar Latin (VL), the question of the linguistic status of Romance, the emergence and nature of Medieval Latin ...
