Re: R: Re: R: "Roumant",or whatever it may be called. PART III
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 27, 2000, 12:02 |
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Nik Taylor wrote:
> Mangiat wrote:
> > Notice the cool fact that Sardinian has retained the old value of Latin <c>
> > and <g>: (pRomance) vocem > oche /Oke/, scire > ischire /i'skire/... really
> > archaic!
>
> Hmm, the orthography seems to be strongly influenced by Italian, despite
> those {h}'s being seemingly redundant! :-) Am I correct in assuming
> that there are *no* examples of written {ce} or {ci} in Sardinian?
There isn't really a standard orthography for Sardinian (unless it is the
creation of the last ten years or so), and furthermore there is no
standard dialect of Sardinian; Italian serves that H function.
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John Cowan cowan@ccil.org
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