the meaning of "genetic relationship"

[Roger Wright]

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John Hewson's comments on Medieval Latin (whether or not amusing) are
absolutely right; the establishment of Medieval Latin, conceptually
differentiated from the contemporary Romance (probably, I say, about 800
A.D., but others disagree) was based, in its phonetic aspect, on the
requirement that every written letter (of the traditional orthography of
every word) should have a corresponding pronunciation, but that single
requirement came to be all that Medieval Latin phonetics eventually had
in common in different areas.
                                        RW
 
 
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, John Hewson wrote:
 
>For the sake of its amusement value .....
>Dialects of Medieval Latin developed early because of influence and
>interference from the substrate. Linguistic evolution of the substrates
>also affected the regional pronunciations, so that _caelum_ was pronounced
>with ch by the Italians, ts by the Germans, and s by the French and the
>English....