From: Jan van Steenbergen (ijzeren_jan@yahoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 16 2002 - 06:21:31 EST
--- Padraic Brown wrote:
> Why not create a legend wherein a dissaffected Remus
> leaves Latium in a huff (perhaps Romulus's walls were
> too ugly) and his followers end up in Carthaginian
> territory. This would gove you some Punic (Semitic)
> influence; and they could end up out in coastal west
> Africa somewhere (to keep them isolated for a while).
> Trade from Carthage would reinforce the Punic
> adstrate.
Yes. Only, there are already a few African-Romance conlangs, AFAIK: Afer,
Punic, Carthagenian...
> I think _all_ Romance languages are derived from VL.
> But VL itself evolved over time and in different
> places, so the VL that gave rise to Spanish and Sard
> would necessarily be different.
Depends on how you define Vulgar Latin. Today, I learnt from Orbilat.com that
the name "Vulgar Latin" applies only to the Western Wing of Latin (giving birth
to the Gallo-Romance, the Ibero-Romance languages, and Sardinian), while the
other wing is called "East Latin" (that later became Romanian and Dalmatian).
Italian is a more problematic case; some consider it West Romance, others East
Romance, and the inevitable C considers it as transitory.
Jan
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