Piotr wrote:
Many of us are so accustomed to the
monolingual environment of a nation-state that we forget how easily
"primitive" people become bilingual or polyglot without any schools
or foreign language courses. They can also abandon their native
language in favour of a lingua franca (now usually Spanish or English, but in
the Roman Empire it was Latin, of course). The lifetime of two or three
generations may be enough for a complete language shift to occur and for a
language to die. It's happening to lots of local languages right now.
Idyllic? By no means. It's the linguistic fieldworker's
nightmare.
hehehheheheheheheheheh
i laugh but i have trouble with your word .
You said "primitive"
I remember that seneca said 2000 years ago
things were many from us nowaday will never dream about..
It seems "primitivism" or "evolutin" are
some discutable notions...
Best Regards,
A. Moeller