Re: [tied] Re: Daci

tgpedersen wrote:

> How about this: Under the pressure of Slavic expansion, whatever
> indigenous groups were there, whether or not they still spoke "their
> own" language, were faced with a dilemma: Becoming Slavic-speaking or
> not. And the latter, because of the numbers involved, entailed making
> a common front, using a creole of the language of the previous
> threat, the Romans.

Obviously, we do not have too much hard evidence for the area in this period.

I have a question: is it possible (and reliable) to check if a language is a
creole only from linguistic traits? That is ignoring historical data.

Paul Alesu