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The native peoples may have been Latin speaking.
Roman Catholics worshiped for centuries in a language few of them understood, following along in their missals as a priest intoned the liturgy in Latin, speaking on their behalf to God.
(Historical note: the established Christian Church of that time had become divided into the Latin speaking Church, home based in Rome, and the Greek speaking Church, home based in Constantinople. These two branches of the Christian Church eventually became the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church that exist today).
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Tells about pig Latin spoken in other countries; children speaking pig Latin, etc.
Vulgar Latin, spoken form of non-Classical Latin from which originated the Romance group of languages.
By 711, when the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula began, Latin spoken there had begun its transformation into Romance.
Furthermore, such loanwords in Albanian attest to the similarities in development of the Latin spoken in the Balkans and of Romanian, a Balkan Romance tongue.
Early texts show a broad division between the speech of northern Gaul, which had suffered most from the invasions, and that in the more stable, cultured south, where the Latin spoken was less subject to change.
Catalan is not, as some believe, a dialect of Spanish, but a language that developed independently out of the vulgar Latin spoken by the Romans who colonised the Tarragona area.
Later on the Thracians took over, and in 101 A.D. Rumania was invaded by the Romans, who were led by the Emperor Trajan, Traces of the Roman occupation still bobs up in Rumanian culture: the language is derived from vulgar Latin spoken by th Rumanian soldiers.
Yet those Vlachs of the Balkans not fully assimilated by their host nations have one thing in common they speak a language apparently deriving from the Latin spoken by the Roman conquerors who arrived in the region more than two thousand years ago.
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