Re: OT: Semi-OT: Romance Comparisons
| From: | Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 24, 2004, 9:55 |
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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/.
/BP 8^)
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