vernaculars
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As an auxiliary language to the local vernaculars, New Latin appeared in a wide variety of documents, ecclesiastical, legal, diplomatic, academic, and scientific.
However, there are places where the traditional regional dialects have been replaced by new vernaculars based on standard German; that is the case in large stretches of Northern Germany but also in major cities in other parts of the country.
In most other Western European vernaculars and in Latin (as Bohemi), the word "Bohemian" or a derivate was used.
None of these Prakrits came into being as vernaculars, but some ended up being used as such when Sanskrit fell out of favor.
Origins The established view is that, as with other Jewish languages, Jews speaking distinct languages learned new co-territorial vernaculars, which they then Judaized.
Pidgins, according to Mufwene, emerged among trade colonies among "users who preserved their native vernaculars for their day-to-day interactions".