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Is it known what point the romance languages stratified, ie ceased to be a fluid continuum? is it at the formation of nationstates? the translations of the bible? something else? am i right in thinking most of the continental germanic language continuum remained intact given that most of it was contained within one nationstate? im not asking that a person from lisbon understand someone from rome, rather that there be a gradual change if you traveled from these two points where intelligibility is mostly a function of proximity. What would of needed to play out differently for that to be the case?
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