Re: [tied] Anatolian

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 41558
Date: 2005-10-24

Grzegorz Jagodzinski wrote:

> It is hard to expect that modern English was homogenous - it is the worst
> example as English is used in many countries and has become a world
> Esperanto recently.

But English has _never_ been homogeneous. It wasn't so even in the first
decades after the Germanic invasion of Britain. There were Anglian,
Saxon and Jutish dialectal areas, probably with an odd patch of Frisian,
Frankish etc. here and there.

Piotr