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En réponse à Padraic Brown <elemtilas@hidden.email>: > > 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. > Could be a possibility. As I said, nothing can be ruled out. > > Well, it's not that bad an idea is it? I might think > > of working it in more > > details... Although I doubt it would have any > > likelihood. > > Whoever said it had to be "likely"!? ;) > Well, I don't want to bend history too much for this one. After all, I'd like to think of it as possible *here* :)) . > > 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. > I've read that Sardinian separated from Common Latin around the 2nd century BC. Wouldn't that be a bit too early to talk about Vulgar Latin? IIRC at that time the spoken and written language were not so different as two centuries later. If I separate Reman from the rest even before, then saying that it comes from Vulgar Latin doesn't make any sense either. Christophe. http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.