Re: Romance or Romanic?

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Tom Wier wrote:

> R G Roberts wrote:
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> > Does anyone have any knowledge of these other Italic languages and the
> > extent to which they varied from Roman by any chance?
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> I think I've read that early on Oscan underwent a lot of shifts in labiovelars
> with e.g.  /k_w/ becoming /p/... but that's about the limits of my knowledge on
> particulars in these languages.
>
Oscan vs. Latin:

Pis pocapit post post exac comono hafiesht meddis dat castrid loufir en
eituas, factud pous touto deiuatuns tanginom deicans, siom dat eizasc idic
tangineis deicum, pod ualaemon touticom tadait ezum, nep fefacid pod pos
dat eizac egmad mins deiuaid dolud malud.

Quis quandoque post hac comitia hababit magistratus de capite uel in
pecunias, facito ut populus iurati sententiam dicant, se de iis id
sententiae dicere, quod optimum publicum censeat esse, neve fecerit quo
quis de ea re minus iuret dolo malo.

Umbrian vs. Latin:

pusveres Treplanes tref sif kumiaf feitu Trebe Iuvie ukriper Fisiu,
tutaper Ikuvina.

post portam Trebulanam tris sues gravidas facito Trebo Iuvio pro arce
Fisia, pro civitate Iguvina.

Note postpositions: tutaper / per civitate; ukriper / pro arce.  But not
posveres.  There are all sorts of books on these two langauges: the two I
used for these texts were Palmer's "The Latin Language" and [of course,
the title page is missing for the second], but has Oscan and Umbrian texts
with Latin translations.  Somewheres around I've got an O-U grammar in
German.

Padraic.

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