[Corpora-List] Phonetic corpora as a tool for language classification.

[Mike Maxwell]

Yuri Tambovtsev wrote:
> Some time ago it was a common place in linguistics that Latin is a 
> Romance language. However, according to the modern classification Latin 
> is an Italic language. 

My understanding is that Italic is a historical grouping including Latin 
and some extinct languages, with the Romance languages being the 
descendants of Latin.  And depending on your definition, Latin may or 
may not be extinct too.

(Actually, I've never heard Latin classified as a Romance language; I've 
only heard it called the *parent* of the modern Romance languages.)
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    Mike Maxwell

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