Lost languages & travelling communities: unexpected medieval histories
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The Language of the Strangers
The language of the strangers was something called sen, which is a little like yiddish. They were certainly circulating in roman communities and eastern mediterranean communities picking up a litle bit of latin. But to this date, i don't know of of printed latin, unfortunately. The claborator cannot identify either. So it's probably an older language, we just don't know a so they seem to have so, for instance, i think the word for donkey is zil, and nots related to the a german, no, isel.
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