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Subject:Re: Thee, thou, and the evolution of language From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:34:56 -0800
Catalan is a Romance language, reads sort of like a hybrid of French
and Spanish (e.g. "Lo gat qui menge lo rat"). Catalan is so close to
Provençal that tourists from Barcelona who visit Nice or vice-versa
can get by pretty well, much better than Spanish and French speakers.
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 12:54 AM, David Neeley <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> As you may be aware, among European languages the two I can think of
> that have absolutely no discernible connection to that Indo European
> root are Basque and Catalan--both from the Pyrenees region of the
> Iberian Peninsula.
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