Re: [tied] Ah, look at all the lonely languages

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "anthonyappleyard" <MCLSSAA2@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:
> > When has Latin ever had "native" speakers?
>
> For a while in the Roman Empire. But it depends on what you mean by
> Latin. Do you include regional dialects such as Praenestine and
> Faliscan? Do you include the bad and progressively worse colloquial
> Latin which has to be postulated as the immediate common ancestor

of

> the Romance languages? For example, it had an intruding German-type
> new perfect tense "habeo scriptum librum" (or rather, "abyo iscrito
> libro" or the like) which produced French "(j')ai e'crit (un)

livre".

Nope. Am not including any of the dialects. Only PURE Latin. Still
claim it occurred during the Roman Empire?

Gerry