Sermo Vulgaris

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Sermo Vulgaris is the informal, everyday spoken form of Latin from which the Romance languages evolved.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Sermo Vulgaris canonical 1
Sermo Vulgaris Latinus 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (56)

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
linked to: Galician language

Italian
Occitan
Portuguese
Proto-Romance
linked to: Vulgar Latin

Romance languages
Romanian
linked to: Romanian language

Sardinian
linked to: Sardinians

Spanish
contrastWith Classical Latin
linked to: Latin

Literary Latin
linked to: Latin
developedFrom Classical Latin
linked to: 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
linked to: Late Roman Republic
usedInRegion Africa Proconsularis
Dacia
linked to: Romania

Eastern Roman Empire
linked to: Byzantine Empire

Gaul
Hispania
linked to: Iberian Peninsula

Illyricum
Italy
Western Roman Empire
writingSystem Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Vulgar Latin alternativeName Sermo Vulgaris
Vulgar Latin alternativeName Sermo Vulgaris Latinus
linked to: Sermo Vulgaris