Wednesday, June 19, 2024
Assimilation
Strabo 3.2.15 (tr. Horace Leonard Jones):
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The Turdetanians, however, and particularly those that live about the Baetis, have completely changed over to the Roman mode of life, not even remembering their own language any more.See Benedict Lowe, "Οὐδὲ τῆς διαλέκτου τῆς σφετέρας ἔτι μεμνημένοι: the disappearance of indigenous languages in Republican Iberia," Rhesis 7.1 (2016) 44-55.
οἱ μέντοι Τουρδητανοί, καὶ μάλιστα οἱ περὶ τὸν Βαῖτιν, τελέως εἰς τὸν Ῥωμαίων μεταβέβληνται τρόπον, οὐδὲ τῆς διαλέκτου τῆς σφετέρας ἔτι μεμνημένοι.
