From: alex_lycos
Message: 21376
Date: 2003-04-29
>>> [Romanian's] almost total isolation from the rest of theWell, I beg you are one of the shcolars who do not belive in the
>>> Romance-speaking world from as early as the 3rd century
>
>> well Peter, I am afraid Piotr won't agree with that
>
> That's up to Piotr
>
>> Which isolation? Where?
>
> See Bàrtoli "Archivio glottologico italiano" 21 (1927!) pp 79ff and
> Puscariu "Die Tatwelt" (1937)pp7ff and the same author in "Etudes de
> linguistique roumaine" (1973) , 60 years later, and there has been no
> evidence to change his opinion. See also Bonfante "TheOrigin of the
> Romance Languages" (1999) p127:
> "As for Dacia, we may take it for granted that after the third
> century it was almost completely cut off from the rest of the Roman
> world; no further linguistic wave was to reach it."
> This is, of course, due to the withdrawal of the Romans in AD 271
>
> Peter