Re: Questions and Impressions of Basque
| From: | J. 'Mach' Wust <j_mach_wust@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 31, 2004, 7:51 |
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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 16:23:57 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>> >As for the f > h story, in Ibero-Romance all inherited /f/ went to
>> >/h/ and then zero (this was long after inherited /h/ went to zero)
>> >except /fw/ which remained unchanged.
>>
>> Incorrect: some Ibero-Romance languages went all the way. Gascon has
>> "huek" for "fire" (Spanish fuego).
>
>I should have said "Iberian Romance"; that is, Romance languages
>spoken on the Iberian peninsula.
The f > h change hasn't occurred in any Ibero-Romance but in Castilian
(Spanish), as far as I know. Appearently, it also occurs in Gascon but this
isn't precisely an Ibero-Romance, even though the Aranés dialect is spoken
in Spain. Portuguese and Catalan preserve the _f_, and so do other northern
dialects like Asturian, Aragonés and Galician.
gry@s:
j. 'mach' wust