Re: CHAT: Is there a conlang inspired in Old English?
| From: | Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, September 5, 2002, 18:43 |
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Christophe Grandsire wrote:
>En réponse à John Cowan <jcowan@...>:
>
> >
> > IIRC the argument is that French (and Gallo-Romance varieties of
> > Italian) acquired front rounded vowels from the Celtic substrate.
> >
>
>I thought this was considered an areal feature, since it's shared between
>unrelated languages which happen to be geographical neighbours? For
>instance,
>if we take front rounded vowels, they are shared by:
>- French,
>- Gallo-Romance varieties of Italian,
>- German and Dutch,
>- Northern varieties of Basque.
Rather than just German and Dutch, you can throw in the entire Germanic
branch - those that don't have 'em, like English and Icelandic, used to.
Andreas
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