Re: [tied] Re: substratum

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

>>> [...] The substrate of Romanian is Albanian.
>>
>> According to whom?
>> AFAIK, Romanian substrate is Daco-Moesian (or North-Thracian, as
>> some people label it).
>> "Latin element from Romanian has undoubtedly a Thracian substrate,
>> whether one admits or not continuity [theory]" (Carlo Tagliavini -
>> Le origini delle lingue neolatine).
>
> A large number of Romanian substrate words have parallels in Albanian.
> I don't know any Daco-Moesian, so I can't say much about that.
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

A number of Rom. Latin words have parallels in Lithuanian. I don't know
eiter too much about Daco-Moesian but we assume the latin-looking
elements in Romanian are Latin and not Lithuanian.
I should have just one question here. HOw is to explain the
"italic-character" for a language or a group of languages?

alex