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Re: OT: A lenga munegasca!

From:Pavel Iosad <edricson@...>
Date:Tuesday, June 10, 2003, 10:44
Hello,

> No, seriously, weren't the Ligurians one of those non-IE > peoples that inhabited > the region before that part of the world was romanised? Like > the Rhaetians and > the Etruscans, who were of course all related to the Basques ;) ?
They probably were, but I guess it's just thanks to the fact that they happened to occupy the shores of the Ligurian Sea, that's all.
> [...] An extremely interesting language, indeed! Very > conlang-like. Quite > different from Corsican, Catalan, Occitan, and Sardinian. > Could it perhaps be > closer to Rhaetoromance, especially Friulian?
Umm, I'm not actually sure if Friulian *is* Rhaeto-Romance. My impression (based on what I've read) is that it isn't. Pavel -- Pavel Iosad pavel_iosad@mail.ru Nid byd, byd heb wybodaeth --Welsh saying

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