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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
> You cannot imagine any local population to gradually shift to another
> language?
>
> Do you know the case of Ireland?
Piotr did not deny that a population might gradually shift its
language, i.e. change the uses they make of two languages. What he
said was that an Albanian-like language would not change to a
Latin-like language. For example, Irish has not changed to English;
it has been displaced.
Richard.