people. Regional dialects were often perceived as inferior to the prestige "Roman" dialect, which--in the view of some authors--may have constituted a genuine style of speech common to the city of Rome. However, other authors perceived their ideal "Roman dialect" as an artificial, prescribed standard of "correct" speech that did not necessarily reflect the vernacular of any given region.

Gaulish

Influence of substrate languages

There are numerous inscriptions from Gaul written in a mixed dialect of Latin and Gaulish,

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