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At 03:57 23.4.2004, Anton Sherwood wrote:
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.
Hall thinks that the split was shortly after the time of
the Gracchi, for which reason he calls the common ancestor
Gracchan Latin. I don't remember off the top of my head when
that was, however.
/BP 8^)
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