Re: Existence of PIE

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From: Piotr Gasiorowski

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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 2:40 AM

Subject: [Courrier indésirable] Re: [tied] Existence of PIE

Sardinia was annexed by Rome in the 230's BC, but Latin took some time
to become the dominant language of the island, and innovations would
arrive all the time with new colonists

Piotr
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(tsalam? t?ob)
This statement is strange.

I read Sardinian is the only dialect that keeps clear traces of short/long vowels.

so LAtin must have settled on the island *before* the feature short/long was turned into open/close in LAte LAtin.

I don't buy this late introduction of LAtin on Sardinia.

Arnaud

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