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--- Christophe Grandsire
<christophe.grandsire@hidden.email> wrote:
> > 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?
As I understand it, VL is simply the spoken Latin as
opposed to the literary standard we study in school.
Regardless of time or place: I suppose one could
differentiate 1st century British VL from 1st century
AC southern Gaulish VL.
By definition, all Romance languages would be
descended from some kind of VL, whether that's the VL
of the ii century AC or the i century AD.
As for Romanian and Dalmatian not deriving from VL (as
previously mentioned), I'd not heard that. I'm not
sure what else they'd come from, though if not some
spoken form of Latin.
> IIRC at that time
> the spoken and written language were not so
> different as two centuries later.
A happy coincidence of that century. Even so, children
learn language by hearing and then speaking. Reading
comes only later.
> If I separate Reman from the rest even before, then
> saying that it comes from
> Vulgar Latin doesn't make any sense either.
Well, there would come a point when there is no
Classical Latin (the written standard) at all on
account of there being no Latin literarure. There
would still be some form of VL, though (until we reach
Common Italic!) which would be the ultimate ancestor
of all Latin derived languages.
As usualy, I may not have it right, so this is all as
I understand the situation.
> Christophe.
Padraic.
=====
beuyont alch geont la ciay la cina
mangeiont alch geont y faues la lima;
pe' ne m' molestyont
que faciont
doazque y facyont in rima.
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