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faceloran@hidden.email wrote: > Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it, > Classical Latin was spoken a few centuries BCE and diverged. > The conservative dialect remained in the upper classes and > was used for writing, while the lower became Vulgar Latin, > which is essentially CL used in a brothel.There are two related (or complementary?) questions here: what do we call "Classical Latin", and when did literary and Vulgar diverge? I gather that "Classical" typically means the literary language of the late Republic, circa 700 aUC, by which time it's a good bet that the split was well established.
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