At 9:54 pm +0000 5/6/01, kam@CARROT.CLARA.NET wrote:
>A while back on Celticonlang I mentioned that I'd seen an article where
>a Latin specialist had finally discovered Jackon's ideas about "British
>Latin" i.e. his theory based on working back from Welsh loans that
>British Latin was rather pedantic and archaic and quite unlike the
>contempory spoken Latin of Gaul. I've now found the reference which is :
My first reaction is that just using Welsh loans will not provide enough
evidence to make generalizations about British Latin, especially as spoken
in urban centers like Londinium, Eburacum, Verulamium, Camulodunum etc.
But I guess the article needs to be read first before making any more comments.
>Gratwick, A. S. "Latinitas Britannica - was British Latin Archaic"
>Ch. I (pp 1-79) in
>Brooks N. (Ed.) "Latin and the Vernacular Languages in Early Medieval
>Britain" Leicester University Press, 1982
>ISBN 0-7185-1209-X
>
>I should imagine that this is of interest to the Brithenig crew, and
>quite possibly to others working on Latin based langs.
...and just to Latinists ;)
>I've a photocopy of the first couple of pages of the article which I'll
>probably post when I get my scanner working.
>
>I anyone does read this article, I'd be interested in their comments.
Can hardly wait. I'll certainly read it - and comment.
Ray.
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