07-12-2023, 10:19 PM
Aga, can you explain what the Ladin language was like in the 15th century, so that you can dismiss it that easily? In the reacent According to the recent Austrian book, the Ladin speakers helped Slavic missionaries in Pannonia translate the Bible in the Old Church Slavonic (called slovenščina at the time). Perhaps the assumption that Ladin and Latin is the same thing is not that obvious, because for Slovenians, 'ledinski' means 'native'. Considering the statement of Lombard historian Paul Deaconus, that the Sclavenes were their neighbours, when they settle in Northern Italy, and that some Lombards understood their language, further attest to the existence of language that has later become known as Slovenian.

