Re: [tied] Re: Did the Gauls speak some kind of Latin?

Words like <bra:cae> (perhaps originally Germanic, but spread by the Celts) or <sa:po:> were borrowed into Latin as well, so it's completely wrong to say that they were "not used by the Romans". The sharing of borrowed words is not the same as relationship or even similarity. Latin borrowed lots of words from Greek, but was not on the whole Greek-like (despite being ultimately related to Greek). Albanian was strongly Latinised early in its history but did not develop into a Romance language. Vulgar Latin was only as "similar" to Gaulish as languages from different branches of IE can be.

Piotr

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Subject: [tied] Re: Did the Gauls speak some kind of Latin?

thank you for your answer Piotr.. I fallowed your link .. thank you for this too. Would you take a look here? http://www.orbilat.com/Encyclopaedia/G/Gaulish_language.html i see there some words which were not used by romans but used by celts and strange , by dacians too. dacian= braca celts=bracae rumanian=bracinari english=trousers the form soap is in celt "sapo" and rumanin "sapun" borrowed probably from latin which got it from celt. Shortly, your answer to the question. Vulgar Latin= somehow similar to gaulish or not?