Re: Latin and Oscan

Brian M. Scott wrote:

Moreover, Gaulish had a case system quite similar to that of
Latin. It's even been suggested that this contributed to
the rapid decline of Gaulish at the expense of Latin.

That can't be what you intended ...
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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