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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 9 05 April 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged |
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I basically agree with Cainntear. It is symptomatic that you already can see some characteristic differences in the oldest 'vernacular' texts from around 700-800 that point towards the later Romance languages. Different etymologies for a number of common words in these also point towards a situation with regional differences in the spoken language during the 'undocumented' period.
On the other hand we should not forget that the Roman army was a surprisingly mobile element in the empire (while it existed), and after that the Roman-Catholic church kept a reasonably uniform version of written latin alive - but as might be expected the existence of a written standard couldn't stop the emergence of local spoken variants. Edited by Iversen on 06 April 2010 at 9:51am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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