From: peter@pmoylan.org.invalid   
      
   On 27/05/24 03:39, Christian Weisgerber wrote:   
   > On 2024-05-26, Aidan Kehoe  wrote:   
   >   
   >> ‘Haec in praesenti, iuxta numerum librorum, quibus lex diuina scripta   
   est, quinque   
   >> gentium linguis, unam eandemque summae ueritatis et uerae sublimitatis   
   scientiam   
   >> scrutatur, et confitetur, Anglorum uidelicet, Brettonum, Scottorum,   
   Pictorum et   
   >> Latinorum, quae meditatione scripturarum ceteris omnibus est facta   
   communis.’   
   >>   
   >> “Five language communities,” I suppose.   
   >   
   > * Anglo-Saxon   
   > * Brittonic   
   > * Gaelic   
   > * Pictish, whatever its affiliation was   
   > * British Latin~Romance   
      
   Yes, with levels of "community". Brittonic and Gaelic were related   
   languages , but I doubt that the speakers of those languages knew that,   
   The "British Latin" were those who chose to join the Roman Empire. We   
   don't yet know who the Picts were, apart from guessing a relationship   
   with the Gaels or the Britons. So it's still a little bit fuzzy.   
      
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