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Re: Slezan

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Monday, January 26, 2004, 17:48
Mark J. Reed wrote:

>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? > >
Methought 'twas Medieval/late Classical Latin... I don't think Vulgar Latin was ever really a written language - the only information we have of it is from current Romance languages, and spelling mistakes made in Classical Latin by authors.

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Costentin Cornomorus <elemtilas@...>
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