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Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris, "common speech") is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages. This spoken Latin differed from the literary language of classical Latin in its pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar. Find out more...