Re: Romance Lang Names...
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 16, 2000, 4:54 |
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On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
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> >I didnt want to use something like 'Romano", or Romançe (how unoriginal),
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> Why "unoriginal"? The only 'real' Romance language that is using the
> name is Romanian. It's all the others that are unoriginal in using
> their place of origin! :)
Rumantsch, too. Actually, that's reasonable: when you speak a Romance
language, you typically need to distinguish it from other Romance languages
which have equally good right to the name "Roman". So the only languages
which keep the names "Roman" or "Latin" are those surrounded by alien
languages: Slavic for Romanian, German for Rumantsch, Slavic again for
Ladin, Turkish for Ladino.
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