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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 04 April 2007 - Volume 02</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_mrdreyer@lantic.net" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mark Dreyer <<a href="mailto:mrdreyer@lantic.net">mrdreyer@lantic.net
</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "History" 2007.04.03 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<div><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="-0"><font color="#000000" size="2">Dear
Isaac:</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="#000000" size="2"><font size="-0"><font color="#000000" size="2">Subject: LL-L
"History"<br><br></font></font>Ron wrote:<br><span>The Romance and Celtic
language branches grew from a common branch off Indo-European. They are
therefore more closely related to each other than to other Indo-European
branches. In Roman times, Latin (Romance) and Gaulish (Celtic) were to a certain
degree mutually intelligible, but apparently only in the sense that certain
words could be made out here and there (which is why Romans in Gaul needed [to
speak Greek(?)]. </span></font></div>
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<div> Actually, as far as I know, the Italo-Celtic hypothesis is pretty
much defunct. There are definitely similarities, even within IE as a whole,
but the current line of thinking is that the resemblance between the Italic*
languages and Celtic ones is due to areal proximity rather than genetic
relationship.</div>
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<div>Mark: It was near enough that Julius Caeser reports in his Commentaries
that he made a point of writing his dispatches in Greek, in case they were
intercepted by Gaulish spies.</div>
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<div>I for my part find this odd, but in a different way. Just because the
Gauls weren't in close contact with the Romans doesn't mean they also weren't
in contact with the Greeks. Masselia was a Greek colony after all. There were
almost certainly a good few Greeks around who spoke Gaulish, & more
Gauls who read Greek.</div>
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<div>Yrs,</div>
<div>Mark <br></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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