Re: yet another romance conlang

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.
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