Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

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

> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:49:04 +0000, m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
>
>> Anyway, I still insist on the fact that /n^/, /l^/ and /dz/ are
>> all Common Romanian and AR, IR, MR; it is only a later partial DR
>> innovation who reduced these phonemes to /j/, /^(j)/ and /z/
>> respectively in some DR subdialects and in literary standard, it
>> would be perfectly useless to assert a major relevance to a late
>> independent dialectal phenomenon.
>
> Well, as Alexandru said, "the real check would be to compare the
> early proto-romanian phonetic system

Proto-Romanian = Common Romanian = Common Primitive Romanian (for
some scholars).

> In which case, if we go back far enough, the Romanian system
> falls together with the Italian one

Precisely. :-)

> and the Albanian one is quite different. Well, if we go even
> further back, they all come together in the PIE phonological
> system, so that's OK.

That's troublesome: haven't we re-discovered an important linguistic
family there?! :-)

Regards,
Marius Iacomi