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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3447473, member: 75937"]Most inhabitants of the Roman Empire were bilingual or multilingual but most inhabitants could NOT speak Latin, which was spoken in the rural, western part of the empire. Romans spoke a mother-tongue (Latin, Aramaic, Phrygean, Coptic, or whatnot) and also Greek, which was truly the <i>lingua franca</i> of the day. It's analogous to the situation we have here at CT. Jochen's mother tongue is German, Q's is French, for others it is Spanish, Arabic or another language, but we all use English here as our <i>lingua franca</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pilate would have been very skilled at Greek, if not fluent, even though Latin may have been the language he learned as an infant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3447473, member: 75937"]Most inhabitants of the Roman Empire were bilingual or multilingual but most inhabitants could NOT speak Latin, which was spoken in the rural, western part of the empire. Romans spoke a mother-tongue (Latin, Aramaic, Phrygean, Coptic, or whatnot) and also Greek, which was truly the [I]lingua franca[/I] of the day. It's analogous to the situation we have here at CT. Jochen's mother tongue is German, Q's is French, for others it is Spanish, Arabic or another language, but we all use English here as our [I]lingua franca[/I]. Pilate would have been very skilled at Greek, if not fluent, even though Latin may have been the language he learned as an infant.[/QUOTE]
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