Re:Italy’s rarest pasta
by umanwizard on Thursday October 20, 2016 @07:17AM
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I've never heard of this language, is it specially known for being particularly close to Latin or something? Why would you expect it to be any more mutually intelligible with Latin than any other modern Latin dialect is? (I mean French, Spanish, etc.)
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From TFA: Residents here still speak Sardo, the closest living form of Latin.
Re:Italy’s rarest pasta
by umanwizard on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:33AM
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Ah, I must have skimmed it too quickly to notice that. Thanks!
Anyway, I doubt it is close enough to Latin to be mutually intelligible, as all modern Romance languages are derived from Vulgar Latin, which is known to be very different form the written Classical Latin.
Re:Italy’s rarest pasta
by acjohnson55 on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:07AM
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There are lots of languages you've probably never heard of :). I realized the same when I started to read about the family of Romance languages to learn what the concept was all about. Not being an expert, it does seem to me to be a theme that languages of relatively isolated communities tend to me significantly more conservative in their evolution than in more cosmopolitan communities.