Re: Country Related: Christmas

John Cowan wrote:
> Eric Christopherson wrote:
> > [Lainesco:] Yes, it is Romance.
>
> We can pretty well deduce just from the name that it is in close
> contact with speakers of some non-Romance language: Germanic,
> Slavic, or Celtic are the likely cases.  Historically
> the names "Latin" (Ladin, Ladino) and "Roman" (Romantsch, Romanian)
> survive only for Romance varieties in close contact with
> outsiders.
Interesting; I never realized that. I haven't worked out any
conculture for Lainesco at all yet. I am thinking it will have some
Germanic influence (such as the -esco in the name), especially since I
know hardly anythin about Celtic or Slavic :)