Re: the slavic influence in Balcans

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Aug 2002 10:58:43 -0000, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >I've seen someone somewhere relating the "conservativeness" of
> >various Romance laguages to the time of the conquest of the

province

> >in question. The only Romance language to keep /ke/ is Sardic.
> >Sardinia was conquered by the Romans in the 3rd century BCE as one

of

> >their first provinces. So why Germanic "kaiser"? The alternative
> >solution is to assume that /ke/ -> /c^e/ spread geographically in

the

> >Roman empire, but why should Sardinia be isolated from that?
>
> It's an island, therefore isolated (or perhaps insulated).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

So is Sicily, England, Iceland, Sjælland. From which we may deduce...
No, seriously, the transport mode that mattered in those days was
that by sea. The role of Roman sea-borne transports has been sadly
neglected; just look at the geographical situation of the Roman
empire: coasts around a common sea, bound to collapse with
developments in land transport (as did later the British empire).
Which doesn't mean you're not right about Sardinia. So /ke/ -> /c^e/
in the empire later than the conquests?

Torsten