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On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 patricia1522@hidden.email wrote:
>I Need to know a couple of places to learn ALL of the romance
>languages (Exluding Spanish) {including Latin, French, and Romanian,
>what others are there??)
Probably not all inclusive:
Portuguese (6 dialect areas), Galician, Austurian, Andalusi,
Castillian, Catalunian, Gascon, Limousin, Languedocian, Provencal,
Angevin, Normand, Francien, Champenois, Picard, Franco-Provencal, Val
d' Aosta, Rheto-Romance, Ladin, Piemontese, Lombardo, Ligure, Toscano,
Umbro, Laziale, Abruzzese, Molisano, Campano, Pugliese, Lucano,
Calabrese, Siciliano, Corso, Sicilian, Friulian, Muntenian, Moldavian.
That's just the varieties of "nonstandard" languages in Europe. There
are also "Standard" Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian;
Chicano and of course, Latin America speaks Spanish and Portuguese.
There are also a number of Creoles - notably in Haiti, Louisiana and
other French colonies.
As far as Latin and ancient relatives are concerned, there are
Classical (or Golden Age) Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin, Vulgar Latin,
Medieval Latin, Old Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and a number of other
ancient Italic dialects.
To actually _learn_ these languages... Your best bet for the standard
languages (the national languages of various European countries) will
be a Teach Yourself course, or your local university. Teach Yourself
courses can be bought through a local book store or amazon.com. The
University of Maryland, for example, offers self guided courses in a
number of minority langauges (apart from courses and degrees in the
Big Three). Same goes for Classical Latin: there is a Teach Yourself
course, or you could study at University. Those dialects listed plus
the ancient varieties and the creoles _might_ have some information on
the Web - though there is a Haitian Creole self guided course (I have
a photocopy of that). There are grammars and dictionaries for
Ecclesiastical Latin, Oscan, etc. but you won't likely find a Teach
Yourself course or a University class. Another source for Latin is
"Latinitas", which is a society for the continued use and expansion of
Latin, and can be contacted through Vatican City. The Vatican offers a
dictionary of Modern Latin; and Latinitas offers comics and other
materials intended to make Latin a little more accessible.
Hope that helps a little!
Padraic.