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>David Stokes, on Mon Dec 11, 2000, 2:43pm
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>>Subject: Punic sources
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>>I've been thinking about a alt-history where Hannibal wins the wars
>>against the Romans and Carthage, not Rome, becomes the dominant power
of
>>the Mediterranean. Lots of interesting con-lang possibilities here. For
>>instance, what is the language of a conquered Rome ? After a little time
>>perhaps something Punic, with Latin influences, like real-world French
>>came from Latin with Gaulish influences.
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>Hello David,
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>Your idea is quite interesting. I don't know anything about Punic language,
>except, of course, that it was a Semithic one. But perhaps it would be
of
>some help to point you that the latinization of Western Europe was certainly
>not due to the Roman Empire in itself, but to the Church (as late as in
>Charlemagne times, people in France were still divided between those who
>spoke romance and Francic languages, an this is why modern French is much
>more influenced by germanic than by Celtic languages). Political domination
>as conceived in ancient times -and perhaps more so to Cartaghinians than
>to Romans- certainly did not need linguistic change. If I would develop
>a project like yours, I would think about some kind of strong ideology
and/or
>organization with a similar role to the Church, in order to explain the
>Punification (argh...) of the Mediterraneum.
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>Hope this helps more than bothers,
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>Luís Henrique
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