11-25-2009, 03:05 PM
Ave Fratres,
Have read and reread the posts and wondered if it would help to put in my two denarii on this. There was an interesting program on the TV, I get UK programming here in the Balkans, The premise was that the Anglo Saxon invasion never happened but it was more of a cultural assimilation.......OK,.... Here comes the language part, there was a cameo appearance of some oxford don, that said that the only surviving remnant of the original Celtic languages in English is the word order. German, French, Latin and the Slavic languages have a different way of positioning subjects and verbs, with the verbs usually at or near the end of a sentence....word and verb endings determine case, voice, etc. This may be an interesting premise that may help you with your reconstruction of spoken Gallic. English word order with the resurrected words. It might work. There are probably some closet philologists on RAT that may be able confirm if that is close to being true or just a recent theory.
Regards from a sunny and warm Balkans, Arminius Primus aka Al
Have read and reread the posts and wondered if it would help to put in my two denarii on this. There was an interesting program on the TV, I get UK programming here in the Balkans, The premise was that the Anglo Saxon invasion never happened but it was more of a cultural assimilation.......OK,.... Here comes the language part, there was a cameo appearance of some oxford don, that said that the only surviving remnant of the original Celtic languages in English is the word order. German, French, Latin and the Slavic languages have a different way of positioning subjects and verbs, with the verbs usually at or near the end of a sentence....word and verb endings determine case, voice, etc. This may be an interesting premise that may help you with your reconstruction of spoken Gallic. English word order with the resurrected words. It might work. There are probably some closet philologists on RAT that may be able confirm if that is close to being true or just a recent theory.
Regards from a sunny and warm Balkans, Arminius Primus aka Al
ARMINIVS PRIMVS
MACEDONICA PRIMA
aka ( Al Fuerst)
FESTINA LENTE
MACEDONICA PRIMA
aka ( Al Fuerst)
FESTINA LENTE
