Re: My Romance Conlang

Peter Bleackley scripsit:

> You could have had a Germanic speaking elite ruling over Latin speaking
> commoners, setting the scene for the evolution of a kind of inverse of
> English.
The trouble is that Italy *was* conquered by Germanic-speakers, twice;
first by the Ostrogoths, then by the Lombards.  Not much happened to
Italian as a result.

My guess is that because the conquerors were barbarians relative to
the Italians, they got as Italianized as possible as fast as possible.

--
John Cowan  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com  jcowan@reutershealth.com
In might the Feanorians / that swore the unforgotten oath
brought war into Arvernien / with burning and with broken troth.
and Elwing from her fastness dim / then cast her in the waters wide,
but like a mew was swiftly borne, / uplifted o'er the roaring tide.
        --the Earendillinwe

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