"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...> wrote on 08/14/2003
07:03:11 AM:

> What's Latin about it? It wasn't spread by the Latin Empire!

The fact that that's what it is conventionally called. Does it all have to
be directly linked to the Roman Empire to be called by convention "Latin"?
The connection is one of origin -- all ~200 characters of the Latin script
are derived from the alphabet used for the Latin language. That's enough of
a connection for me.



- Peter


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