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I don't think Occitan had shrinked that much before the French Revolution? My guess is the author is assuming that everyone knows where the dominant, 'imperial
by euccastro 18y ago
I don't think Occitan had shrinked that much before the French Revolution?
My guess is the author is assuming that everyone knows where the dominant, 'imperial' languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Russian ...) are spoken, and aims to represent the deltas from those. Either that, or it has an exaggerated anti-imperialist bias.
- jsmcgd 18y agoAgreed. If you assume that the dominant languages have been 'colored in' first and the lesser dominant languages have been laid on top then it works.
- DmitriLebedev 18y agoThat's what I thought of too.