En réponse à John Cowan :
>Older borrowings show h > g, more recent ones h > x.
Interesting. A bit like Japanese early borrowings from European languages
using strictly Japanese syllables (borrowing for instance [tu] as [tsM] and
[ti] as [tSi]), while newer borrowings now keep those syllables (like
"paatii" [pa:ti:]: party).
>Well, Ethnologue (which is the ultimate splitter taxonomy) divides
>Ibero-Romance into Catalan, Occitan (which they reckon a taxon of
>six languages), and "West Iberian", which last is divided into
>Asturian, Castilian and four close relatives, and Portuguese-Galician.
>So they agree with you, but of course they don't provide the evidence.
Hehe ;) .
>In fact yes. After all, you can walk from Gibraltar to Brussels to the
>southernmost tip of Italy without ever crossing a "hard" language
>barrier, at least in terms of traditional dialect. (But take your
>mountain boots.)
LOL. Now *that's* a romlanger's dream trip ;))) .
Christophe Grandsire.
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