Re: Gaelic thing
| From: | Ray Brown <ray.brown@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 9, 2002, 18:20 |
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On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 07:09 , Christophe Grandsire wrote:
{snip}
> But Romance conlangs with a strong Celtic substrate are indeed well-known
> (the
> so-called "Brito-Romance" branch of the Romance languages that exist in
> Ill
> Bethisad). I know about Brithenig, Kernu and Breathanach (with Welsh,
> Cornish
I can't speak for Kernu or Breathanach - but Brithening does not properly
speaking
have a _Welsh_ substrate. It has a Old British influence. It's basis is
Vulgar Latin; it is what
Andrew thinks the Vulgar Latin of Britain might have developed into if the
urban
Romano-British culture had survived and the nascent Romancelang of Britain,
which
was certainly there, had not been swept away by incursions of Saxons and
related
Germanic peoples. If the Vulgar Latin of Britain had survived and
evolved into
Brithenig, it is almost certain that the old British lang would've died
out (as Gallic did
in Gaul) and there would be no Welsh.
Ray.