Re: Related languages (Re: A China-Sumer connection)

From: Miguel Carrasquer (mcv_at_wxs.nl)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 23:35:40 GMT

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:11:55 GMT, "Peter T. Daniels"
<grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote:

>Give me ONE example of a person who stopped speaking Lusatian and
>started speaking German. And when you have one, let the foreign-language
>teachers know how the Germans managed to make the Lusatian do it.

I don't know how the complete Germanization of e.g. Polabian
(Lusatian is still spoken) took place. It may have been a
case of the locals being swamped by German immigrants.

A better example for the kind of thing you're inquiring
about is Roman Gaul, where in most areas there was never any
significant immigration from Rome.

In Gaul, plenty of people must have stopped speaking Gaulish
and started speaking Latin _to their children_, otherwise
there is no way to account for the eventual language shift.

=======================
Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@wxs.nl

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