in North Africa, especially in the Africa province, the origin of the name "Africa" that was later applied to the whole continent) Latin Sociolects (most provinces) Imperial Latin (Sociolect used by ruling class Romans) Judeo-Latin (Judæo-Latin / La‘az/ Ebraico-Latino) (לועז – Lo`ez / La'az) (Sociolect used by Roman Jews) Serf Latin (Sociolect used by Roman Serfs) Out of the Empire Latin Germanic-Latin Slavic-Latin Late Latin (Latina / Lingua Latina) (last phase of Latin as a first language or mother tongue and written Latin of Late Antiquity) Medieval Latin (Lingua Latina) (Latin after stopped being spoken as first language or mother tongue) Broad Medieval Latin Ecclesiastical Latin (Church Latin / Liturgical Latin) (Lingua Latina Ecclesiastica) Hiberno-Latin / Hisperic Latin (Latin spoken and written by Ireland's Celtic Christianity or Insular Christianity culture, a part of the Catholic Christianity in the Medieval Christianity time, especially the Irish monks) Renaissance Latin Baroque Latin (French Standard Latin) New Latin (Lingua Latina Nova / Latina Nova) Contemporary Latin (Latinitas viva) Late Vulgar Latin (Sermo Vulgaris / Lingua Romanica – "Roman language" / "Romanic language", the origin of the term "Romance" applied to the languages) (Vulgar Latin, especially Late Vulgar Latin is synonymous with Proto-Romance or Common Romance, Latin through its variant Vulgar Latin, is the Proto-language or common ancestor language of Romance or New Latin languages or Neo-Latin languages) (Latin, mainly including its variant, Vulgar Latin, had several regional dialects that over time developed towards separate but closely related Romance/New Latin languages languages) (extinct) Romance / New Latin / Neo Latin (languages that evolved from Latin regional dialects that over time developed towards separate but closely related languages) Continental Romance / Northern Romance (another alternative classification of the main Romance languages groups is the Western vs. Eastern Romance languages split by the La Spezia-Rimini Line) Italo-Western languages (dialect continuum) Italo-Dalmatian languages (dialect continuum) Italian (in the sense of a group of sister languages forming a dialect continuum) Old Italian (extinct) Central Italian / Middle Italian (Italiano Centrale / Italiano Mediano) Latian (Laziale) (spoken in most part of the Lazio region) (roughly in the region corresponding to the Old Latium) Romanesco (Romanesco / Romano) (spoken roughly in the city of Rome, genealogical and geographical descendant from popular Roman Latin) Central-Northern Latian / Ciociaro (spoken in the old Province of Rome, outside the capital, and the northern areas of the Provinces of Frosinone and Latina, roughly in the