Re: Who SPOKE Classical Latin in Rome?

> > You see, I'd like to make them the ancestors of my Romula conlang
>speakers,
> > to explain why Romula is so close to Classical (not Vulgar) Latin in
> > vocabulary, so archaic.
>
>Well, that depends on where Romula is located.  Certain Romance languages,
>like Sardinian, managed not to undergo the palatalization of Classical /k/
>to
>/tS/ like most (all?) other Romance dialects.  If the people speaking
>Romula
>are highly isolated (like those on Sardinia were), they might not undergo
>changes
>that were prevalent elsewhere in the Latin-speaking world.
Pania, the origianl country from where Romulaphones are originated (not
Romula, Romula is just a name of the language) is indeed an isolated
territory, consisting from a several rather big islands in the Biscayan Gulf
of the Atlantic ocean (not sure in the English spelling if this gulf...
Biscaya?). The panians could live there relatively isolated from other
(Roamnce-speaking) world untill 8-11 centuaries I believe (beginning from
1-4 centuries AD). So they could easily preserve many features of Vulgar
(not Classical, now I see it) Latin of 1-4 centuries AD, which dissapeared
in other Romance langs, I suppose. The archaism of Romula can easily be
explain by this reason.

Artem
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