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
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