Popular Latin
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Popular Latin is the non-standard, everyday form of Latin spoken by the common people of the Roman Empire, from which the Romance languages later developed.
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical language stage
ⓘ
variety of Latin ⓘ vernacular language ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Vulgar Latin
ⓘ
sermo cotidianus ⓘ sermo plebeius ⓘ sermo vulgaris ⓘ |
| ancestorOf |
Catalan
ⓘ
French ⓘ Galician ⓘ Italian ⓘ Occitan ⓘ Portuguese ⓘ Romanian ⓘ Romansh ⓘ Sardinian language ⓘ Spanish ⓘ |
| contrastedWith |
Latin
ⓘ
surface form:
Classical Latin
Medieval Latin ⓘ
surface form:
Literary Latin
|
| developedInto |
Old French
ⓘ
Old Italian ⓘ Old Portuguese ⓘ Romanian language ⓘ
surface form:
Old Romanian
Old Spanish ⓘ Romance languages ⓘ Romansch ⓘ Sardinians ⓘ
surface form:
Sardinian
|
| distinctFrom |
Ecclesiastical Latin
ⓘ
Medieval Latin ⓘ |
| feature |
development of definite and indefinite articles in daughter languages
ⓘ
greater use of analytic verb forms ⓘ increased use of prepositions ⓘ lexical borrowing from substrate languages ⓘ loss of neuter gender in many areas ⓘ phonological simplification compared to Classical Latin ⓘ reduction of case system ⓘ regional dialectal variation ⓘ |
| languageFamily |
Indo-European language family
ⓘ
surface form:
Indo-European languages
Italic languages ⓘ |
| notableScholar |
Friedrich Diez
ⓘ
Jules Gilliéron ⓘ Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke ⓘ |
| partOf | Italo-Western branch of Romance ⓘ |
| reconstructedFrom |
early Romance texts
ⓘ
grammarians’ comments on incorrect Latin usage ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ non-literary documents ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
Late Antiquity
ⓘ
Roman Empire ⓘ Late Roman Republic ⓘ
surface form:
late Roman Republic
|
| usedBy |
common people of the Roman Empire
ⓘ
merchants in the Roman Empire ⓘ rural population of the Roman Empire ⓘ soldiers of the Roman army ⓘ |
| usedIn | Roman Empire ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.