{reading this, and thinking about 'french' and 'spanish' and 'portugese' and there's this hold, an aqueduct network, past the breakdown it still works, because the ideogram doesn't change that much. even tho the pronunciation disappears into localized riffs and intonations.
we have the romantic links because it wasn't that long til it picked back up but it could've gone on past that, it's not huge but there's a repository there that isn't as vulnerable to the rust of isolation.}