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Re: My Romance Conlang

From:John Cowan <cowan@...>
Date:Friday, June 20, 2003, 11:27
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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