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Originally Posted by Xanthe
Whenever I read about languages and they discuss ones like Basque, where no one knows what the source of the language was, I always wonder, "what if a family with some genetic speech impediment moved into a vacant area, subsequently others moved into the area and had to learn the family's way of speaking to deal with them, and slowly a language evolved that is an amalgam of perhaps multiple languages but filtered through a speech impediment?"  |
Then an Oxford scholar arrives. Hilarity ensues.