| Lemma | patois |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Whitney (1875) |
| Titolo | The Life and Growth of language |
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| Citazioni | […] by external forces, every act and influence of which is clearly definable, the cultivated languages have been and are extending their sway, crowding out of existence the patois which had grown up under the old order of things, gaining such advantage that men are beginning to dream of a time when one language may be spoken all over the earth. They [Romanic dialects] all rose […] out of the condition of local patois, products of the corruption of the popular speech while the Latin continued the language of the learned. |