[lbo-talk] VERY off-topic: for the English teachers (probably not profs)

[123hop at comcast.net]

Supposedly closer than Italian. The hypothesis is that the Romans came and went, and were replaced by Mongols and Turks, who were more interested in tribute than cultural domination. So Latin was kinda hermetically sealed in Romania for sixteen hundred years....whereas in Italy it evolved into the vulgate. 

Joanna 

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From: "Michael Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> 
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Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] VERY off-topic: for the English teachers (probably not profs) 

On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:10:39 +0000 (UTC) 
123hop at comcast.net wrote: 


> Yes, Romanian is inflected. Closest living language to Latin. 

Closer than Italian, you think? 

Romanian has an interesting suffixed article, IIRC. 
Like Swedish. Are there any other IE languages 
than can make this boast? 

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