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Re: yet another romance conlang

From:andrew <hobbit@...>
Date:Sunday, January 9, 2000, 3:42
Am 01/08 22:12  Raymond Brown yscrifef:

> As the whole of north Africa west of Libya was at one time Latin speaking > (the earliest Latin Biblical texts come from there IIRC, and the first > record use of Latin in Christian liturgy was, I believe, in north Africa - > Greek was too well known in Italy), I guess it quite an effect on former > Berber speakers. > > If this region had not been overrun by the rapid expansion of Islam, but > remained Christian, it is not difficult to imagine either the development > of a Romance language with strong Berber overtones or the development of a > Berber language with a largish stock of Latin vocabulary 'absorbed' during > the Roman occupation in the same way that in Britain a Celtic language with > a considerable amount of vocab absorbed from Latin evolved into modern > Welsh. >
I was under the impression that the Berbers remained outside the influnence of Roman society. Also that African Christianity suffered a mortal blow due to the bad press of the Crusades in Muslim society, only the Monophysite Coptic community surviving to present day in continuity. - andrew. -- Andrew Smith, Intheologus hobbit@earthlight.co.nz "Piskie, Piskie, say Amen Doon on your knees and up agen." "Presbie, Presbie, dinna bend; Sit ye doon on mon's chief end." - Attributions unknown.