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Vulgar Latin
, or
Common Latin
, is one of the two types of
Latin
, an old
language
that was spoken by the
Romans
. Vulgar Latin is not spoken anymore, but its many
dialects
eventually became what are now
Romance languages
(such as
Italian
,
Spanish
,
French
,
Portuguese
and
Romanian
). Vulgar Latin was spoken by the regular people (
vulgus
in Latin means "common"): farmers, workers and others without a great deal of education.
Classical Latin
is the type of
Latin
that was first spoken by the
Romans
. As time went by, fewer and fewer people spoke
Classical Latin
, and in the end, the language changed to become Vulgar Latin. After a while, only scholars spoke Classical Latin, but books were still written in it.
Latin is no longer spoken as a native language, but many educational institutions teach it as a
second language
, and many
Roman Catholic Church
officials are fluent in it.
Vulgar Latin is similar to Classical Latin but has some differences in pronunciation and vocabulary. Latin has five basic
cases
for
nouns
,
