Lingua Vulgari


 * Not to be confused with Vulgar obscenity, the profane and indecent usage of Lingua Vulgari.
 * Not to be confused with Vulgar obscenity, the profane and indecent usage of Lingua Vulgari.

Vulgar Language or Vulgar Lassian ("from Lassiu"), also Colloquial Lassian, or Common Lassian (particularly in contrast to regional non-standard varieties), is a range of  of  spoken in Rashnna and by Rashnna expatriates. It is distinct from Rasnnal, the official legislative language of the country. Compared to Rasnnal, Lingua Vulgari has no official, although very often Vulgarian from Lassiu is therefore.

By its nature, Vulgar Lassian varies greatly by region and historically by time period, though several major divisions can be seen. Vulgar Lassian dialects began to significantly diverge from by the third century during the classical Tuscany period of Rashnna. Nevertheless, throughout the sixth century, the most widely spoken dialects were still similar to and mostly mutually intelligible with Classical Lassian. As the Rashnna states gradually broke apart from the Tarquinian Republic during the Dark Ages, geographical differences became more prevalent.

The Vulgar Lassian spoken by Rashnna expatriates in Kartavia and Tosanchi was heavily influenced by the dominant languages, often displacing prior loanwords of Zibythi origin, and became radically different from the at home, prompting many to refer to hypothetical  such as Kartavian Vulgarian and Tosanchian Vulgarian. In reality, the speakers thereof identify these as. There is no precise estimate of the death of the usualis sermo Lassii ("casual Lassian speech"), but accelerating changes were documented as early as the 1300s. Even after the formal end of medieval Vulgar Lassian, i.e. when all varieties became mutually unintelligble, people had no other names for these languages until the Nova Epocha di Cultura (1720–1938). Tosanchinese helped abstractly categorize the emerged varieties of Lassian into, , , ,  and.

Vulgar Lassian (from Lassiu) was adopted by the state after the Etruscan independence, having previously been a literary language based on of the Turian branch, as spoken mostly by the  of Lassian and Tinettian societies. Its development has since been influenced by Rasnnal and standardization reforms began in 1991. The current boasts a lingua puritana ("modest language") that utilizes dubious  to surmount Tosanchinese,  and  loanwoards, but it has also been attested that Vulgarian  borrow more and more from the aforementioned. Almost all native Vulgarian words end with vowels, a factor that makes Vulgarian words extremely easy to use in.

Origin of the term
The term "common language" (lingua vulgari), which later became "Vulgarian", was used by the inhabitants of Ancient Rashnna. Subsequently, it became a technical term from Lassian and  referring to the unwritten varieties of a Lasseticized language spoken mainly by  populations trading with the Rashnna Republic.

Traces of their language appear in some inscriptions, such as graffiti and advertisements. The educated population mainly responsible for may have also spoken Vulgar Lassian in certain contexts depending on their socioeconomic background. The term was first used improperly in that sense by the pioneers of Rasennic-language philology: Yailaiko Mitsi (1761–1836) and Gosuri Maiko (1794–1876).

In the course of her studies on the lyrics of songs written by of, Yailaiko noticed that Rasennic languages derived in part from lexical, morphological, and syntactic features that were Lassian, but were not preferred in. She hypothesized an intermediate phase and identified it with the Rummana lingua, a term that in areas speaking Rasennic languages meant "nothing more or less than the vulgar speech in mercantile centers (such as Ruma) as opposed to the literary or grammatical Lassian of Lassiu.

Gosuri, the principal founder of Rasennic-language philology, impressed by the of Nukowa Bidugi in Bunnamana ji Tosānchi-satim ("Grammatical Study of Tosanchinese"), which came out in 1819 and was the first to use such methods in philology, decided to apply them to Rasennic languages and discovered Yailaiko's work, Bunnamana ji Gyānkon-satim hiho ("Grammatical Study of Contemporary Rasennics"), published in 1821. Describing himself as a pupil of Yailaiko, he went on to expand the concept to all Rasennic languages, not just the speech of the menestrelli, on a systematic basis, thereby becoming the originator of a new field of scholarly inquiry.

Gosuri, in his signal work on the topic, Lui mi bunnamana ji Gyānkon-satim ("Advancements in the Grammatical Study of Rasennics"), after enumerating six Rasennic languages that he compared Turian and Cursitian (south); Monrealian and Flohorian (east); and Maneplagnian and Sualemanican (northwest), asserts that they had their origin in ancient Lassian – but "not from classical Lassian," rather "from the Lassian and Rumman popular language or popular dialect". These terms, as he points out later in the work, constitute a "reinterpretation of Rasennic historical linguistics from what is known of the Fusenic counterpart".

The concepts and vocabulary from which lingua alla Vulgari descend were known in the classical period and are to be found amply represented in the unabridged Lassian dictionaries, starting in the Late Tuscan Republic. Marcs Thamnari was a prolific chronicler whose largely survived works shed light not only to the sermo nobilis ("noble speech") but also the quotidianus ("everyday [speech]"). These modifiers inform post-classical readers that a conversational Lassian existed, which was used by the masses (vulgus) in daily speaking (colloquium) and was perceived as lower-class (plebeius).