Re: The letter j\
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, April 23, 2002, 6:01 |
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Danny Wier wrote:
>(I haven't followed this thread too closely, so if this point has been
>raised already, my apologies.)
>
>On Mon, 22 Apr 2002 01:14:46 -0400 Roger Mills <romilly@...> writes:
>> In most of Argentina (I should say, in Buenos Aires) both <ll> and
>> <y> are
>> [Z]; interestingly, Pablo Flores always used [S] instead......a
>> regional -
>> personal - generational difference? Or a change since 30 years
>> ago?
>
>Didn't that happen before as Portuguese developed into its own language
with
>|ch| /S/ where Castilian has |ll|?
Right you are. I need to hunt up the book on Spanish and Portuguese (still
in storage I think). But _IIRC_ (big doubt) the Port. is a case of
independent or parallel development (though the process was probably
similar). I suspect the Span. development is relatively recent, but I'm by
no means sure......