 ", Romanian) (east); Spanish and Portuguese (southwest); and Provençal and French (northwest), asserts that they had their origin in Latin – but "not from classical Latin," rather "from the Roman popular language or popular dialect".These terms, as he points out later in the work, are a translation into German of Dante's "vulgare latinum" and "Latinum vulgare", and the Italian of Boccaccio, "latino volgare".These names in turn are at the end of a tradition extending to the Roman Republic.