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Re: Slezan

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 17:44
RB> Quite - and the only natlangs actually
RB> descended from
RB> Classical Latin are ecclesiatical Latin,
RB> medieval Latin and
RB> the modern Latin of the Vatican - _all_ L2s.

I thought ecclesiastical Latin was descended from the Latin of the
Vulgate, which was (later) Vulgar Latin, not Classical?

Anyway, formal/literary English is also a conlang in this sense.  An artificial
construct based on a natlang but grammatically distinct from all natural
dialects.

-Mark

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