Alex:
>You are partly right. I cannot bring any proove for what was spooken
>2000 year ago.
Alex, it's simply wrong to say that a language hasn't changed over 2000
years. That is impossible. One might say that a language is _similar_ to
a language 2000 years ago. Even so, there are always some changes
that take place. Even Latin, a moribund language, has been altered and
added on to in modern centuries.
>But the proof for the year 1521 is there.
Please don't bother. When the logical premise of a theory is flawed,
proof is also inheirantly flawed.
>P.S. I have a *.wav file which is supposed to be the pray "Our father"
>in OE. It sounds not as English but as a strange scandinavian dialect.
Yes, it does. Old English was very much more like Germanic languages
than Modern English is today, naturally. It's simply the age-old drift of
language evolution at work. Modern English has lost many of the
inflections that were once present and the Great Vowel Shift also
permanently affected the way English sounds. Sounds like [x] or [c,],
sounds typical for many other Germanic languages like Dutch or
German, were also lost.
= gLeN
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