Is there a relationship between the phonology in Old Latin and later Vulgar Latin?

1. What is the difference between classic Latin and Vulgar Latin?
2. What is Vulgar Latin How did it develop?
3. Why is Vulgar Latin important?

What is the difference between classic Latin and Vulgar Latin?

The answer usually given is that Vulgar Latin was the language of the people, while Classical Latin, coming down to us as a literary language, was closer to how the elite spoke.

What is Vulgar Latin How did it develop?

Vulgar Latin (in Latin, sermo vulgaris, "common speech") is a blanket term covering the vernacular dialects of the Latin language spoken mostly in the western provinces of the Roman Empire until those dialects, diverging still further, evolved into the early Romance languages — a distinction usually made around the ...

Why is Vulgar Latin important?

Rather, Vulgar Latin is the father of the Romance languages; Classical Latin, the Latin we study, is their grandfather. Vulgar Latin was spoken differently in different countries, where, over time, it became such familiar modern languages as Spanish, Italian, French, Catalan, Romanian, and Portuguese.