Re: [tied] Re: The Normans and their language

John Croft wrote:

> The Jutes who arrived in Kent, and the later Anglo-Saxons, replaced
> the Romano-British elite with a Germanic one, constantly reinforced
> by new arrivals from Germany. There was little need for the Germanic
> elite to marry British, they had suffcient Anglo-Saxon wives from
> amongst the new arrivals to chose from.

Very interesting post. I wonder whether, you have a similar theory
explaining the "slavization" of Bulgars. Did they not have enough Bulgar
women with themselves? And what about the Hungarians? How did they manage to
save their language after they were mixed with local Slavs? What was the
difference between them and Bulgars? And another question (although not
related to the language problem): why was the fate of the Magyars so
different from that of Huns and Avars?

Michal