 Even after the end of Classical Latin, people had no other names for the languages they spoke than Latin, "lingua romana", or "lingua romana rustica" (to distinguish it from formal Latin) for 200–300 years.The Romance languages, such as Catalan, French, Italian, Occitan, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish all evolved from Vulgar Latin and not from Classical Latin, but linguists prefer to distinguish the attested Vulgar Latin from the reconstructed model of Proto-Romance.The term "common speech" ("sermo vulgaris"), which later became "Vulgar Latin", was used by inhabitants of the Roman Empire.