Editing Standard language (section)

===Latin===
The standard language in the [[Roman Republic]] (509 BC – 27 BC) and the [[Roman Empire]] (27 BC – AD 1453) was [[Classical Latin]], the literary dialect spoken by upper classes of Roman society, whilst [[Vulgar Latin]] was the [[sociolect]] (colloquial language) spoken by the educated and uneducated peoples of the middle and the lower social classes of Roman society. The Latin language that Roman armies introduced to [[Gaul]], [[Hispania]], and [[Dacia]] had a grammar, syntax, and vocabulary different from the Classical Latin spoken and written by the statesman [[Cicero]].{{sfnp|Palmer|1988}}