not only are there intermediate languages, there are the language equivalent of ring species - one beautiful example is a chain of villages between france and italy, where any two neighbouring villages understand each other, but on one end they're speaking french and on the other end italian.
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Date: 2009-11-19 04:45 pm (UTC)