Re: My Romance Conlang
| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, June 20, 2003, 9:06 |
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At 09:26 20/06/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> --- Adam Walker skrzypszy:
>
> > > Really neat intriguing idea. Germanic Vulgar
> > > Latin, eh 0_o? Aren't there
> > > some examples of language mixes of Vulgar Latin and
> > > "barbarian tongues" that
> > > are similarly Germanic and Latinate???
> >
> > Sure. French!
>
>And don't forget Rumantsch and Ladin. I wouldn't really call them "mixes", but
>the German(ic) influence is strong and undeniable.
>
Of course, for the situation I've proposed, (an early first-century German
conquest of Rome), Classical Latin would be the principal source. The
situation I'm proposing is, let Germanic have the same manner of influence
on Classical Latin that Norman French and Mediaeval Latin had on Old English.
Pete