Re: I have been CHALLENGED. . .

David Cantrell <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:07:57AM +0200, Jasper Janssen wrote:

For that matter, just because two languages
are vaguely similar, doesn't mean they're the same language.

I'm still going to keep calling Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/French
"pidgin Latin".

Well, you could, although now that they're spoken as native languages,
linguistically they'd have to be called creoles. And to be a pidgin in
the first place, a language would have to result from contact between
two speaker groups who had never previously heard the other's languages,
forming a combination of the two typically with a small subset of the
vocabulary from each and greatly simplified morphology and syntax.

Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, or French are much more the result of
Latin developing along different, somewhat divergent, directions.

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