Raymond Brown scripsit:
> It is a Romancelang - what I find odd is that it has so many Welsh
> features, including purely orthographic conventions like {f} = /v/ which,
> personally, I think would be unlikely in a Romancelang.
Even one being written by British scribes? Why should their handwriting
problems ("v" becoming illegible) be any different because they were writing
low Latin rather than Celtic?
> Yes, but Sardinia received its Latin very early on before /k/ and /g/ began
> their process of palatalization before front vowels. I guess that when
> that process started, Sardinia had become a bit of a backwater and remained
> unaffected.
As I understand, proto-Sard split from proto-Common-Romance as early
as the first century B.C.
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