Re: Slezan
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, January 26, 2004, 17:44 |
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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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