Re: [tied] Thracian , summing up

From: P&G
Message: 23698
Date: 2003-06-21

> >From Latin as Muttersprache to Protoromanian should be some 200-300
> years.
...> As analyst, do you expect to see the same language which in 2-300 years
> became ( supposed) an another language ( Latin > ProtoRomanian) for not
> changing in the next 1000 or 1500 years ?

Alex, why not look at what happened in French, Spanish, Italian etc. If you
date your "proto-Romanian" to about 600 AD, what is going on with the
western Romance languages at that time?

And guess what you discover? Charlemagne has to ban the pronunciation
/Santer/ (roughly like modern French) and insist on /kantare/ for the
"Latin" word cantare. The situation you find unbelievable is close to what
we see in the West.

You know that Latin is itself constantly changing, and the Romance languages
derive from the spoken form, not the classical form. The roots of these
languages go back to some time BC - so it's more time than you seem to
think.

Peter