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The Codex Assemanianus
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Relexification in Creole and Non-Creole Languages, edited by Julia Horvath, Paul Wexler.
Pages 69-70:
- A similar case of lexical deficiency can be found in Old Church Slavic, the artificial liturgical unspoken language constructed in the 9th century with proto-Macedonian grammar and lexicon, and early enriched by Czech, Croatian, Slovene and Bulgarian lexical components. It was used in all Slavic Orthodox communities, where additional influences were acquired from the local Slavic languages, e.g. in Serbia, Russia, Ukraine. Old Church Slavic originally served as a calque medium for the translation of Greek Christian religious texts. Hence, much of its vocabulary (especially the complex morphemes) are loan translations of Greek patterns of discourse.
- In addition, the presence of synonyms from Slavic languages other than Macedonian or Bulgarian which do not ordinary appear in spoken Macedonian and Bulgarian are also a clue that Old Church Slavic is an artificially contrived, specifically relexification-based language (invented by Macedonians for use by the newly Christianizing Slavs in neighboring non-Macedonian territories), though not necessarily that all the earliest Old Church Slavic literary texts were Greek relexified to Macedonian. The unusual number of synonyms is also a sign of the artificiality of the language.
- Several decades ago awareness of creole languages forced linguists to reconsider the criteria for assigning languages to language families and the possibility that a language might be descended from more than one parent.
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Page 10: "In chapter 4, it is suggested than Rumanian may not be a Romance language, i.e., a direct descendant of Vulgar Balkan Latin, but a Slavic, or possibly indigenous Balkan, language relexified to Romance vocabulary between the 7th and 12th centuries."
Page 17: "Among both the Jews and Africans there were probably speakers of European languages prior to the migration abroad. In ancient Palestine, Greek was spoken widely by Jews, especially in urban centers.."Last edited by Carlin; 12-22-2012, 02:00 PM.
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