Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> By the way, I'm thinking of the real name of "Roumant". According to the
map Dan
> sent me, the whole South-East of France was called Narbonensis (surely
from the
> town name Narbo, Narbonnis, which gave Narbonne in French). It would make
a nice
> language name I think: Narbonósc /narbo'nos/ (/os/ is the regular outcome
of
> <-ensis> /e:sis/, the final <c> being only an orthographic contamination
from
> Frankish ending /isk/ - or maybe Latin /iscus/ -, not pronounced, but
triggering
> the pronunciation of the previous <s>). But before settling to this name,
I'd
> like a confirmation from other people on the list: was that name
Narbonensis
> really common for the whole South-East of France? If so, then I would have
> finally found a name for the currently called "Roumant" language.
Yes, Gallia Narbonensis was the correct name for the province. Where are you
going to put the capital of this "pseudo-France"? Marseille?
> Christophe.
>
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