Also letting other quorans show off a bit here.
- Q I
- When did Latin and Old French stop being mutually intelligible?
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- amateur linguist
- Answered just now
- When Latin stopped being the written reference for the spoken language, which is before one can speak of actual Old French.
One needs a generation of speakers who had never been used to Latin in Church sounding like an oldfashioned version with many archaic words and forms of their own language, to whom Latin had all their life been a distinct language.
In the region of Tours, Latin became a distinct language between 800 and 813, due to Alcuin of York changing the pronunciation, but you cannot speak of Old French as long as those born after 813 are not the oldest generation yet, since the spoken language would still have a bit too many traces of diglossia to be properly non-Latin.
- Q II
- Is Albanian a Germanic language?
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- knows German
- Answered just now
- No, if someone has described it as “Indo-Germanic” that doesn’t mean Germanic, it is another word for “Indo-European”.
- Q III
- What did the Huns think of Rome?
- Answer requested
- by Dylan Maya-Tudor
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- Answered just now
- Probably that the legions were losing power so the Empire was a good place to loot.
- Q IV
- What are examples of Proto-Germanic words that don't come from Proto-Indo-European?
- Joachim Pense
- Not good at languages, but interested in concepts & details
- Originally Answered:
- What are examples of Proto-Germanic words that didn't come from Proto-Indo-European roots?
- Answered Sat
- Wikipedia gives list of words that have been claimed being non-PIE-based, and another list of some of those words for which meanwhile a PIE root has been suggested.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_substrate_hypothesis
- Rich Alderson
- upvoted this
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- Just now
- Thank you!
- Q V
- Which modern language has changed the least from Proto-Indo-European?
- Nikola Rasic
- Translator and Intepreter General Linguistics
- at Most - De Brug, Univ. of Zagreb
- Answered Sun
- Lithuanian.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- Just now
- Probably correct.
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- Just now
- That is, insofar as PIE was ever a language.
- Q VI
- How do you not confuse yourself when learning 4 or more languages at once?
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- knows Latin
- Answered just now
- I actually was never learning 4 or more languages at once, but each new or two new ones after acquiring earlier ones a bit more solidly.
- Q VII
- How difficult is it to write a novel in your second language instead of your mother tongue?
- Answer requested
- by Iris Quesada
- Quora Question Details Bot
- Aug 8, 2017
- If someone wants to do such a thing, What suggestion will you give?
- Hans-Georg Lundahl
- amateur linguist
- Answered just now
Totally depends on how much you have hitherto used your second language.
If you are fully fluent (or as good as) it is not difficult.
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