Sermo Vulgaris
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Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language stage
→
spoken language → variety of Latin → |
| alternativeName |
Vulgar Latin
→
sermo cotidianus → sermo plebeius → sermo vulgaris Latinus → |
| ancestorOf |
Catalan
→
French → Galician → Italian → Occitan → Portuguese → Proto-Romance → Romance languages → Romanian → Sardinian → Spanish → |
| contrastWith |
Classical Latin
→
Literary Latin → |
| developedFrom |
Classical Latin
→
Old Latin → |
| extinctionPeriod |
early Middle Ages
→
|
| feature |
development of definite and indefinite articles
→
greater use of analytic verb forms → increased use of prepositions → lexical differences from Classical Latin → loss of quantity distinction in vowels in many areas → phonological simplification → reduction of synthetic passive forms → simplified case system → |
| influencedBy |
substrate languages in Roman provinces
→
|
| languageFamily |
Indo-European languages
→
Italic languages → |
| notableSource |
Pompeian graffiti
→
late Latin inscriptions → non-literary papyri → |
| register |
colloquial
→
informal → |
| spokenBy |
common people of the Roman Empire
→
merchants in the Roman Empire → rural populations in Roman provinces → soldiers of the Roman army → |
| status |
extinct
→
|
| timePeriod |
Late Antiquity
→
Roman Empire → late Roman Republic → |
| usedInRegion |
Africa Proconsularis
→
Dacia → Eastern Roman Empire → Gaul → Hispania → Illyricum → Italy → Western Roman Empire → |
| writingSystem |
Latin alphabet
→
|
Referenced by (2)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Vulgar Latin
→
Vulgar Latin ("Sermo Vulgaris Latinus") → |
alternativeName |