Vulgar Latin

Vulgar Latin, also call as Popular or Colloquial Latin, is non-literary Latin spoken from the Late Roman Republic onwards. Depending on the time period, its literary counterpart was either Classical Latin or Late Latin.

History

By the end of the number one century offer the Romans had conquered the entire Mediterranean Basin in addition to established hundreds of colonies in the conquered provinces. Over time this—along with other factors that encouraged linguistic as well as cultural assimilation, such(a) as political unity, frequent travel and commerce, military service, etc.—made Latin the predominant language throughout the western Mediterranean. Latin itself was quoted to the same assimilatory tendencies, such(a) that its varieties had probably become more uniform by the time the Western Empire fell in 476 than they had been before it. That is not to say that the Linguistic communication had been static for any those years, but rather that ongoing reorganize tended to spread to any regions.

All of these homogenizing factors were disrupted or voided by a long string of calamities. Although Justinian succeeded in reconquering Slavs and Avars by c. 620. All this was possible due to Roman preoccupation with wars against rest of North Africa by c. 699 and soon invaded the Visigothic Kingdom as well, seizing almost of Iberia from it by c. 716.

It is from approximately the seventh century onward that regional differences proliferate in the language of Latin documents, indicating the fragmentation of Latin into the incipient Romance languages. Until then Latin appears to gain been remarkably homogenous, as far as can be judged from its a object that is caused or produced by something else records, although careful statistical analysis reveals regional differences in the treatment of the Latin vowel /ĭ/ and in the progression of betacism by approximately the fifth century.