[tied] Re: Was proto-romance a pidgin?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21354
Date: 2003-04-29

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> The concept is not believable even for the change of a language
completely. Why whould one speak home a language which he use just in
the administration and army of the Empire?

Why is Arabic spoken throughout North Africa? Why do they speak
English in the Republic of Ireland? What did so many native
communities in Latin America adopt the language of the conquistadors?
Why are so many people in the former Soviet republics more fluent in
Russian than in their national languages? Any ideas? ;-))

Piotr

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