Proper noun
Vulgar Latin- The Latin language as spoken by the people, as opposed to Classical Latin as written in formal literature, the arts, etc.
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...Vulgar Latin (in Renaissance Latin, vulgare Latinum or Latium vulgare; in Latin the words can be in any order as their declensions and conjugations make the sense) is language that was spoken rather than written. It is sometimes called colloquial Latin. Historians and bibliographers believe that the language spoken by the illiterate was significantly simpler than formal Latin. Read full entry
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- 1.Vulgar Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Vulgar Latin can also refer to vernacular speech from other periods, including ... "Vulgar Latin" is sometimes used to describe the grammatical changes found in ...
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- 2.Vulgar Latin: Definition from Answers.com
- Vulgar Latin n. The common speech of the ancient Romans, which is distinguished from standard literary Latin and is the ancestor of the Romance
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Where on the internet can I What are the differences
between vulgar latin and
latin?
Are there differences in
pronunciation? How do you read
"Quintus" in vulgar latin! I
know in latin it's: "cvintus"
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Vulgar Latin is just your everyday, common, or slang usage. While the term is primarily applied to the Latin that was spoken in the Middle Ages, it has been around since the beginning of the empire - the playwright Plautus (about 280 BC) is considered to have written in vulgar Latin. It similar to the difference between saying "equestrian" and "rider". By the time the Middle Ages came around, the slang usages had replaced the regular ones (caballus in place of equus, bellus instead of pulcher). Which is why the Romance languages have variants of these later Latin words, as opposed to the classical ones. The pronunciation did change; during the classical period, the c was hard like a k, but it softened to a ch or s sound a few centuries later. As with the ae and oe ligatures - the a and o portions were dropped as the pronunciation changed. Which is why you once in a great while will see a words like encyclopedia and medieval written as encyclopaedia and mediaeval, which are closer to the original classical spelling. |
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How do I pronounce the Vulgar I've never taken a latin
class, so I'm pretty clueless.
A family member told me that
it's pronounce like
'Sess-ah-dee-eh.' Does anyone
know if this is correct, and
if not, what is?
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there's a difference between "scholarly" latin and "church" latin. church latin = more italian sounding, basically. scholarly latin = hard c's, and e = "eh" in this case, there's a stress on the second syllable, which changes the pronunciation a bit. seh-KAY-de-re (try to roll the re a bit.) Secedere is the infinitive form of the verb, so you'd actually be yelling, "TO WITHDRAW" So if you want to TELL someone to "BACK OFF", you'd use the vocative. So, say: "SECEDE!" to one person, "SECEDETE" to several people |
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how different is classical could the speaker of vulgar
understand the classic ( i
know classic speaker also
understand vulgar) , and even
the high class must have used
vulgar latin most of the time.
i was also wondering if i
could have an example of this,
such as , like is it
comparible to modern english
and scottish?
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The vast majority of the Classical Latin that remains features the Roman dialect (the Latin spoken in and around the city of Rome) because Rome was the major center. Everybody who was anybody wrote in the Roman dialect even if they were from somewhere else. After the fall of the Roman empire, Latin was less dictated by how it was used in Rome. You could make the argument that all Romance languages are very divergent dialects of Latin. So Vulgar Latin had always been there but, now that the empire was gone, authors felt more free to write in there own style. Hence, Vulgar Latin. Your question isn't easy to answer because it depends on who from where is speaking to whom at what time in the long history of the language. Generally speaking, I'd say that a native Latin speaker would be able to understand a speaker of a different dialect more easily the closer it was to the fall of the empire. Eventually, Latin diverged so much that the language is now dead. A good example would be to compare the Latin of the Catholic Church to Classical Latin. If Cicero heard the Pope speaking, he probably would recognize it as Latin and get the gist of it. Just as when a native speaker of English listens to someone with a heavy foreign accent. |
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