Langenesis

Indo-European family

Vulgar Latin

300 CE – 800 CE Extinct

Vulgar Latin (300 CE – 800 CE) is an extinct Indo-European language. It has 38 descendant languages and stages on the map. Lineage: Proto-Indo-European → Proto-Italic → Proto-Latino-Faliscan → Old Latin → Latin → Vulgar Latin.

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The colloquial sociolect of Latin spoken across the late Roman Empire, ancestral to the Romance languages. Endpoint is conventional — the transition to recognizable Old Romance varieties was gradual.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4,500 BCE – 2,500 BCE
  2. Proto-Italicc. 1,500 BCE – 700 BCE
  3. Proto-Latino-Faliscanc. 1,000 BCE – 700 BCE
  4. Old Latinc. 700 BCE – 100 BCE
  5. Latin100 BCE – 300 CE
  6. Vulgar Latin300 CE – 800 CE

Descendants 21

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