Voynich manuscript deciphered!?!
this is a really cool article if you're a fan of ancient mysteries. the voynich manuscript has baffled people for years.
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Fascinating article. The author goes a bit far, however, in stating that this Proto-Romance was ancestor to all(?) modern Romance languages. Six hundred years earlier, French had already differentiated itself from Latin enough to be called a distinct language. The first document written in "French" was 'les Serments de Strasbourg' (842). Maybe he means only Mediterranean Romance Languages, though Portugal is not a Mediterranean country and Spanish is/was heavily influenced by Arabic.
Here's a bit of 'Les Serments': "Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat...". It looks a bit like Latin but it definitely isn't Latin. I would love to see this translated into Proto-Romance just to see how they diverged.
Source:
L'Histoire d'une langue - le français: M.Cohen
amymcmxcii
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June 15, 2019
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yeah ... what she said! I don't know squat about language histories or any of that mess. I think of it all more in terms of cultural which I guess is early in that romantic period. My views on these topics are much more population-center oriented which was before the national borders and language became a better distinction.
@JeffMesser Language is cultural. Language is the glue that makes societies possible; nothing else even comes close in importance. The population-centres whereof you speak are the result of people coalescing aroung a common language, not the other way around.
