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British Latin
RegionRoman Britain, Sub-Roman Britain, Anglo-Saxon England
ExtinctEarly Middle Ages
Language family
Indo-European
  • Italic
    • Latino-Faliscan
      • Latin
        • Romance
          • British Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List
lat-bri
GlottologNone

British Latin or British Vulgar Latin was the Vulgar Latin spoken in Great Britain in the Roman and sub-Roman periods. While Britain formed part of the Roman Empire, Latin became the principal language of the elite and in the urban areas of the more romanised south and east of the island. In the less romanised north and west it never substantially replaced the Brittonic language of the indigenous Britons. In recent years, scholars have debated the extent to which British Latin was distinguishable from its continental counterparts, which developed into the Romance languages.

After the end of Roman rule, Latin was displaced as a spoken language by Old English in most of what became England during the Anglo-Saxon settlement of the fifth and sixth centuries. It survived in the remaining Celtic regions of western Britain. However, it also died out in those regions by about 700; it was replaced by the local Brittonic languages.

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