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Classical Latin was used in the 1st century BC and was the official language of the Roman Empire. It was widely used in the western part of the Mediterranean. The Romance languages developed from its spoken informal version, called Vulgar Latin . Latin was very important to Christianity for many centuries.
Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris) is a blanket term covering vernacular usage or dialects of the Latin language spoken from earliest times in Italy until the latest dialects of the Western Roman Empire, diverging significantly after 500 CE, evolved into the early Romance languages, whose writings began to appear about the 9th century.
Old Latin. Attested since 7th century BC. Developed into Vulgar Latin as colloquial form, and Classical Latin as literary form, around 75 BC. Expansion of the Roman Republic during the 2nd century BC. Very little Latin is likely to have been spoken beyond the green area, and other languages were spoken even within it.
Vulgar Latin or Sermo Vulgaris ("common speech"), also Colloquial Latin, [1] or Common Romance (particularly in the late stage), was a range of non-standard sociolects of Latin spoken in the Mediterranean region during and after the classical period of the Roman Empire. It is distinct from Classical Latin, the standard and literary version of ...
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 ...
Classical Latin is the form of Literary Latin recognized as a literary standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and early Roman Empire. It formed parallel to Vulgar Latin around 75 BC out of Old Latin, and developed by the 3rd century AD into Late Latin. In some later periods, the former was regarded as good or proper Latin; the latter as ...
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
