Benct Philip Jonsson wrote:
> At 00:52 24.4.2004, Roger Mills wrote:
>
>> Interesting-- could it have to do with ancient Celtic and/or later
>> Germanic
>> influence (the Langobardi)?? Perhaps the southern idioms ("Eastern
>> characteristics") are what Western Rom. would have looked like
>> without the
>> Germanic influx?? Just speculating.......
>
>
> IIRC it is mostly a question of which vowels merge with each other:
> in western /U/ merges with /o/, while in eastern it merges with /u/.
>
What about Sardinian? I believe it merges with /u/ there. But
Sardinian's weird.