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

In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" wrote:

>>>>> When has Latin ever had "native" speakers?
>>>>
>>>> Before turning into (Proto-)Romance languages.
>>>
>>> Wasn't that "after" the Romance languages turned into PIE?
>>
>> I didn't intended my phrase as a joke.
>
> Neither did I intend to go for the laugh. should I have inquired
> whether it happened "before"? This must be an inside joke. I don't
> get it.

OK, lemme rephrase it: before the spoken language of Romance
regions could no longer been caled Latin (extended "moment" from
which one can speak about Proto-Romance), it was still Latin. Not
necessarily and mostly Classical Latin but Vulgar Latin, from the
early times up to Late Latin (2nd-4th centuries A.D. with large
approximation). Most persons who spoke that idiom were native
speakers of a language which can be called Latin.

HTH,
Marius Iacomi

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