On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:37:58 +0100, "alex_lycos" <
altamix@...>
wrote:
>Is this "e" from verdia the "e" which is today to find in "verde" or is
>an another vowel?
Modern Romanian, like modern Spanish, does not distinguish between
open /E/ and closed /e/ [Spanish /e/ tends towards the closed variety,
I'm not sure about Romanian], but the difference is still present in
Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, French and Italian. (In Catalan the
distinction is actually inverted: Romance /E/ > /e/ and Romance /e/ >
/E/).
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...