Re: [tied] Franco-Provençal

> Corsican is not the same thing as Italian. It is a Tuscan adstrate on top
> on a Genoese strate on top of something that was similar to Sardinian. And
> they say it's dying out. My daughter spent a summer in Corsica about 5
> years ago and said she couldn't find anyone who spoke it. And she lived
> with a family of Corsican, not French, ancestry.

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It's basically the same thing as most other dialects of Italian. Latin
evolved and mixed up with adstrates and substrates.
I thought Corsican would be more alive than what you describe.
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> Written Wallon and Picard look very different from French
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It's not very difficult to convert words from one variety into the other.

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> McDonald's --Didn't no body ever learn you good?
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no body in two words ?
Is that what you teach ?

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> Well, if talks like a duck, walks like a duck and swims like a duck . . .
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Might be Mike Phelps.

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