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Re: OT: Semi-OT: Romance Comparisons

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Saturday, April 24, 2004, 10:59
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.

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Adam Walker <carrajena@...>
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