Re: [tied] Re: Woof

From: P&G
Message: 44625
Date: 2006-05-18

>Of course Sardinian ..._is_ archaic, and little wonder: the
> islands were taken over by Rome in the 230s BC, long before Iberia,
> Gaul, etc.

I would have thought it was not the early time of colonisation that
mattered, but the relative remoteness from the centres of linguistic
innovation in the early middle ages.

Peter