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> Romance is descended from the Latin of the soldiers and other commoners. Latin in its role as inter-language of the literate did not diverge much - that function depended on its fixity. So this is why languages seem to become simpler in grammar? They aren't exact descendants, but they are related in word stock, then that's why they are 'daughter' descendants and not 'sister' descendants... I think...