Re: [tied] Middle English Plurals

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:

> > Tok Pisin survived. If it hadn't been for increased literacy in
> > English and French many more of their creoles would have survived.
> > Why did all the IE creoles disappear then?
>
> We're into speculation here, which is likely to be unproductive in

the end.

> But we might in passing note that modern Creoles have survived -

what - 200

> years? You're talking 3000 or so with PIE creoles.
>

Circular. Creoles as they are known now are spoken (mainly) in former
English and French colonies, thus can't be any older the 200 years.
As they say: a dialect with an army and a navy is a language. New
saying: a creole that survives is a language.

Torsten