La contemporaneità: Babele o continuum linguistico?

Romance linguistics makes use of intercomprehension in order to analyse “Pan-romance vocabulary” with its loanwords from both national languages and dialects or minority languages. The analysis can however also be extended to the frontiers of the “common European vocabulary” (SAE) which groups the languages of the so-called “Charlemagne area”. The history of Europe and its colonial offshoots can be recognised in this oscillation between diversification and linguistic continuum.

Keywords: Pan-romance lexicon, Common European lexicon, Romance linguistics