From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 16158
Date: 2002-10-11
>Truth to tell, the Romanians would be calling their language "limba rumâneascã" if the adjective <românã> (with an artificial /o/) had not been introduced to emphasise the etymological connection with Rome. Romanian is by no means the only Romance language with such a name. We still have the Romansch/Rumonsch (Rhaeto-Romance) dialects in Switzerland, and the Old French vernacular (Franceis) was called Romanz or Romans in the Middle Ages in opposition to (Mediaeval) Latin, hence our generalised term "Romance":Same in Spain: <romance>, applied to the vernacular, or to poems written in the