Fascinating Diego. Many thanks. The
prominence of Latin in Italy (and all of Europe for that matter,) explains why
the development of standard Italian was relatively late. Amazing to think
that as recently as 50 years ago some of the Italian dialects were not mutually
intelligible, or not easily anyway. I hope steps being taken to
record these dialectal forms before they die out completely :-)
I shall be more aware of Italian now and will be
able to look out for loanwords in the ON texts I translate for
college.
Kveðja,
Sarah
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 4:10
PM
Subject: [norse_course] History of the
Italian language
I've just completed the brief history of Italian that Sarah
and some of you
have asked for. I hope everything is correct and that it
may be useful for our
discussion about Italian
loan-words.
Cheers,
Diego
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