Hebrew beats both by over a millenium, but that's a special case. How about
Irish? Would the bards of old understand most of it, minus slang and imports?
At 10:39 PM 5/22/2001 +0100, you wrote:
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>> But tell me, why do you speak like Dante? Has
>> Italian changed so little in the past 500 years?
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>I think Icelandic beats even Italian here -- there hasn't (I think) been a
>major linguistic change since about 1000 AD
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>Robin Hamilton
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