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A comment on Italy’s rarest pasta. Parent comment

Re:Italy’s rarest pasta by mhb on Thursday October 20, 2016 @07:23AM (#12751372)
From TFA: Residents here still speak Sardo, the closest living form of Latin.
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Re:Italy’s rarest pasta by umanwizard on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:33AM (#12751679)
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.

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