[tied] Re: Albanian, Romanian & Italian phonologic systems

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 15:38:00 +0000, m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
>
>> On another hand, one should note that Albanian /r/ is not at all
>> pronounced like in Romanian & Italian but more like in English
>> (say, in "frame" or "right", for not making it post-vocalic...).
>
> The essential point is that Albanian has two rhotic phonemes (r
> and rr), Romanian an Italian only one (Italian has geminated /rr/,
> but we're not counting Italian geminates). That I had already
> counted.

Of course. I was just pointing out that phonetical realization of
the rhotic phoneme seems rather to connect Romanian & Italian while
keeping Albanian aside.

> Come to think of it, Spanish has /r/ and /rr/.

... opposed as in "pero" & "perro".

> It has two lateral phonemes, and it has /T/ and /D/ too, like
> Albanian. Can the TRUTH BE that Spanish Phonetic System is much
> closer to Albanian Phonetic System??? This GREAT similarity could
> only be explained by a GENETIC LINK!

It looks like you being on the edge of a spectacular discovery:
cal escriure un article, fer una comunicació científica, o almenys
enviar un missatge especial a cybalist... :-)

Regards,
Marius Iacomi