Re: Ah, look at all the lonely languages

From: Frank Verhoft
Message: 22963
Date: 2003-06-10

From: anthonyappleyard
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Ah, look at all the lonely languages
 
Hi Anthony, hi all
 
<<<For a while in the Roman Empire. But it depends on what you mean by Latin. Do you include regional dialects such as Praenestine and Faliscan? Do you include the bad and progressively worse colloquial Latin which has to be postulated as the immediate common ancestor of the Romance languages?<<<
 
What do you mean by "bad and progressively worse coloquial Latin"? Do you intend to say that language change is language decay?
And why not asking: "Do you include that almost artificial language (nowadays called Classical Latin) which was confined to a very specific (social, cultural) context?
 
Frank