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--- 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 ===== "Originality is the art of concealing your source." - Franklin P. Jones __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com