Questions tagged [language-contact]
For questions about language contact of the Latin language with other languages and resulting phenomena.
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Are there attestations of Greco-Latin contact languages from antiquity?
When speakers of different languages meet they often develop some contact language or pidgin containing elements of both languages. Surely speakers of Greek and Latin met in the antiquity at several ...
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What errors did the Greeks typically make in Latin?
Suppose a person born and educated in Greece comes to ancient Rome.
They have learned Latin and can converse fluently but not at a native level.
What kinds of wrong pronunciation, vocabulary, or ...
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