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|Era||developed into Romance languages 6th to 9th centuries| The
Roman Empire in AD 117 Vulgar Latin is any of the unstandard (as
opposed to classical) sociolects of Latin from which the Romance
languages developed. The word vulgar in this usage comes from
the Latin word for common, as Vulgar Latin was the spoken
language, and not from the English word meaning disgusting or
objectionable. Works written in Latin during classical times
used Classical Latin rather than Vulgar Latin (originally called
sermo vulgaris), with very few exceptions (most notably sections
of Gaius Petronius' Satyricon). Because of its nonstandard
nature, vulgar Latin had no official orthography. Vulgar Latin
is sometimes also called colloquial Latin, or Common Romance
(particularly in the late stage). In Renaissance Latin, vulgar
Latin was called vulgare Latinum