Occitan shows through the Latin

Status: Anticipated · untested

Status is derived only from the shepherd-authored triage/prediction data above -- community submissions and claims are a separate overlay and can never change it (see the participation panel below).

This is a proposed connection between two domains, generated by a language model. It is not an article and not evidence: it sits below the evidence/publication boundary. A quantitative prediction and a named kill-dataset are attached (when registered) so the claim stays falsifiable rather than merely evocative.

Claim (verbatim)

Inquisition registers record vernacular testimony in notarial Latin, but the Latin skin tears in predictable places, letting Occitan words through. The conjecture is twofold: the tear-points cluster in domains where Latin genuinely lacked equivalents — kinship terms, foodstuffs, and the heretics' own ritual vocabulary — and each scribe tears at his own stable rate, so vernacular-insertion density works as a scribal fingerprint that survives changes of deponent and topic. Notaries were translating under time pressure and each carried a fixed personal threshold for giving up on Latin. If it holds, registers can be partitioned among unnamed scribes statistically, and the inserted lexicon maps exactly which parts of village life the Church's language could not reach.

Prediction clause (verbatim)

Primary clause: in the Fournier register, per-scribe vernacular-insertion rates differ significantly between hands and remain stable for each hand across deponents and sessions. Secondary: over 60% of vernacular insertions fall in the kinship, food, and ritual-terminology domains, against under 20% for a random lexical baseline.

Kill-dataset (verbatim)

Duvernoy's three-volume edition of Jacques Fournier's inquisition register with the transcription of Toulouse, Bibliotheque municipale ms 609.

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Provenance

Run: Fresh agent generation · model: claude-fable-5

This packet was produced in a single blind Write from model-internal knowledge only, with no repository reads, web access, database queries, or any tool call other than this Write.

Novelty / leakage triage

anticipated in the literature — this exact test has never been run

The Occitan-inflected Latin of the Fournier register and the notarial translation pipeline are much discussed, but per-scribe vernacular-insertion rates as stable fingerprints and the domain clustering (kinship, food, ritual) have not been measured.

Fournier Register (translation process and vernacular traces)

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