Expertlatin
Is Vulgar Latin spoken today?
Latin is an old language that was spoken by the Romans. Vulgar Latin is not spoken anymore, but its many dialects eventually became what are now Romance languages (such as Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Romanian).
How different was Vulgar Latin?
In Vulgar Latin, pronouns like ego and tu slowly lost their emphasis and started being used more frequently. Likewise, ille and illa took on the roles of definite articles (as English 'the'), resulting in Italian il and la, French le and la and Spanish el and la. Grammatical gender was sometimes confused.
Did ancient Latin sound like Italian?
The sounds are quite easy to reproduce. As a general guide, Latin would have sounded more like modern Spanish or Italian than English. Latin is however spoken with two rather different systems, widely called "Classical" and "Ecclesiastical".
