História externa da Língua portuguesa

do Latim ao Português

Abstract

To affirm that the portuguese language has its origin in the Latin spoken in the Iberian Peninsula by the Romanized peoples is to repeat the obvious; however, it should be noted that the Latin term is not univocal, since there are varieties of the language of the Romans such as: sermo urbanus - language of the most cultured social strata and sermo plebeius - language of the uneducated mass: rusticus (peasants) , military (military) and pilgrims (foreign). For this reason, it is sought, in this text, to emphasize that the portuguese language is a continuation of popular latin, with its various social varieties, which extended into the galician-portuguese novel, a variant of latin that constitutes an intermediate stage between vulgar latin and modern Romance languages - updating, in their evolution in time and space, in the current Portuguese used in Brazil.