During the Classical period, Roman authors referred to the informal, everyday variety of their own language as sermo plebeius or sermo vulgaris, meaning "common speech".
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Evidence for the features of non-literary Latin comes from the following sources:
• Recurrent grammatical, syntactic, or orthographic mistakes in Latin epigraphy.
• The insertion, … 查看更多內容

Lexical turnover
Over the centuries, spoken Latin lost various lexical items and replaced them with native coinages; with borrowings from neighbouring languages such as Gaulish, Germanic, or Greek; or with other native words that had … 查看更多內容

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By the end of the first century AD the Romans had conquered the entire Mediterranean Basin and established hundreds of colonies in the conquered provinces. Over time this—along with other factors that encouraged linguistic and cultural 查看更多內容

Consonantism
Loss of nasals
• Word-final /m/ was lost in polysyllabic words. In … 查看更多內容

Romance articles
It is difficult to place the point in which the definite article, absent in Latin but present in all Romance languages, arose, largely because the highly colloquial speech in which it arose was seldom written down until the … 查看更多內容