[tied] Re: Albanian "dy"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> The very reduced lexical data of Rom. with other Romance, special

with

> Dalmatian makes the things even more weierd. There is a statistic

made

> by John Fisher in his studium on Dalmatian language which shows
> following corespondence:
> Pan-Romanic words: 208
> Lexical corespondance between Romance languages:
>
> Dalmatian-Italian :427
> Dalmatian-French :380
> Dalmatian-Spanish :365
> Dalmatian-Portuguese:344
> Dalmatian-Romanian :298
>
> the another fact that Rom. has not properly Latin derivatives but

just

> the root with its own intern derivatives opens big questions

regarding

> this relationship which is between Rom and Latin.

Was Dalmatian part of the Romance dialect continuum? Apart from the
relationship with Romanian, the further West one goes the fewer
cognates. Does anyone dispute that Romanian has been outside this
dialect continuum for a very long time? (Very very long if Romanian
were not descended from Latin.)

The East-West split of Romance (not a clean break) is partly
obscured by the geographical gap between Romanian (sensu lato) on
one hand and the other (continental, at least) dialects on the other.

Richard.