LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.10.01 (06) [E]

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 A=Afrikaans Ap=Appalachian B=Brabantish D=Dutch E=English F=Frisian
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From: Mike-club <botas at club-internet.fr>
Subject: LL-L "Language survival" 2002.09.29 (02) [D/E]


hi Lowlanders,
A short while ago someone (cannot find the message back) suggested that
Scots, rather than having been derived from English on a Gaelic/Norse
substrate, might have evolved rather independently and in parallel with
English from the languages of the early Anglo-Saxon invaders. I´ve had now
for a few months my first real exposure - through reading LL postings - to
written Scots, and I find about the same degree of Latin (Norman)
superstrate in Scots as in English. Shouldn´t one expect rather less
Normannic words in Scots than in English if the a.m. supposition was true?
Mike Wintzer

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