[LMB] OT: Medieval language gradations, was TSK:B - unfamiliar terminology

[Peter Granzeau]

At 10:35 PM 3/30/2008, B. Ross Ashley wrote:
>Pete, unless you're walking (dryshod?) as-the-seagull-flies from Bari to Kerkyra, you're going to need a helping of Hrvatsk, a smattering of Srbsk, and little bits of Gheg and Tosk. Or you could use Scandinavian-tourist German, I suppose.
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>Considering there may have been some sharp ethnic divisors even in the early Medieval period along the Adriatic coast, I do doubt the statement anyway, unless you're only talking Venetian to all the traders and pirates ... they'd speak it, but it would be their second language.

My atlas doesn't take you to Venice at all.  Gibraltar, Cartagena, Valencia, Barcelona, Marseilles, Cannes, Nice, Genoa, Rome, Naples, and Messina, which is on the "toe" of the Italian peninsula.  You never get to the Adriatic.  Bari and Venice are nowhere near the tour.


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Regards, Pete
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