Re: Slezan

Ray Brown scripsit:

> On Monday, January 26, 2004, at 07:56 PM, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
>
> >Language is not only a continuum in space, but in
> >time as well. At some point in time, the French
> >and Spaniards decided to call their speech
> >something other than "Roman" (what we would call
> >VL).
>
> Yep - and the Romanians still call their language Roman till
> the present day   :)
Of course, French and Provencal and Spanish and Catalan had to have names
other than "Roman" or "Latin", because they needed to distinguish
themselves from their equally Romance neighbors.  The names "Roman"
and "Latin" survive, in general, only where the neighbors speak a
non-Romance language, whether Germanic or Slavic.

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