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

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