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Low Latin

The bottom is Latin or Late Latin name of the forms of Latin of late antiquity that is usually the Latin versions which was written between ^Third to ^sixth century , see the ^seventh century in Spain. Latin forms of this name are grouped under intermediate versions between version called classical and medieval. These versions are different from the Vulgar Latin , which was strictly speaking it. And even if the low-Roman authors more or less incorporate vocabulary and structures peculiar to vulgar Latin, these forms of latin keep a large extent the general features of classical Latin. In these forms of Vulgar Latin, it is possible to distinguish a very specific form, that of the Patrologia Latina , a collection of Christian texts.

The late Latin was widely used as a language transcript of records necessary for social relations in the economic border with non-Latino people. According to Antoine Meillet , "Without the external appearance of the language has greatly changed, Latin became the imperial race of the day a new language ... serving as a kind of lingua franca for a large empire, the Latin has tended to simplify, to keep what he had mostly banal ... "

The Low Latin was then used over the centuries following the construction of word to the Romance languages.

History of Latin
-75 BC. AD	75 av. BC - ^I century	^EII - VIII ^century	^IX - XV ^century	^XV - XVII ^century	^XVII - today
archaic latin	Classical Latin	Low Latin	Medieval Latin	Humanist Latin	Latin Contemporary