 The Classical Latin word "fabulare" ("to make stories") became a broad term for "to speak" in Vulgar Latin, encompassing "narrare", "loqui" and other similar verbs (all roughly translating to "to tell, to speak" in Classical Latin).As Vulgar Latin lost its cases, the new caseless words often took their accusative forms after shifting spelling and pronunciation.There was no single pronunciation of Vulgar Latin, and the pronunciation of Vulgar Latin in the various Latin-speaking areas is indistinguishable from the earlier history of the phonology of the Romance languages.