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On 27/08/07, English Book Al Ahsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Selma
>
> This is some information available on American Heritage Dictionary.4th
> edition.
> (copyright 2004)
> As you mention that Roman language came from Rome, its again mentioned in
> the chart of the same above mentioned dictionary, as Proto-Indo-European (
> c-5000 B.C) that Italic was the principle language from which came Latin and
> later, all the sister languages i.e. Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, French,
> Italian, Rhaeto-Romance and Romanian. Rome is no where mentioned, hence I
> presume that Romanian may be the Roman language? (not sure as Rumania is
> entirely a different country speaking a different language)
RESPONSE: Rome = Latin. In school we used to say, Latin killed the
ancient Romans and now it's killing me !
We have the Romani Gypsies, nothing to do with Rome, ostensibly
originated from North West India. I was told by one Goan multi
linguist in Singapore, that when he has in Germany, he had visited
these folks camp and they spoke Konkani ! If one spoke slowly they
could understand each other. Also in their traditions they have a lot
of Gold (typically Indian) they have a lot of ceremonies involving
Coconuts, so they must have originated from Goa...
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DEV BOREM KORUM.
Gabe Menezes.
London, England
