Re: My version

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

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> 2) If one uses the standard method of locating the origin of a
> language family on Romance, you would point to Sardinia, since that
> language is the most conservative. The various Italic languages have
> left no trace in Italian dialects AFAIK. This homogenization of
> Italian dialects, I think, goes back to two varieties of Late Latin,
> Christian Latin on a Greek substrate, from the Greek-speaking
> immigrants from the east, and 'Barracks Latin' on a
> Germanic/Celtic/NWB(?) substrate. Those are the sociological facts.
> There is no way those substrates can't have influenced Romance.

AFAIK

> no one ever looked at the question from this angle.

Oscanisms are found in some South Italian dialects. All that comes
to mind, without references, are <bifolco> 'plowman',
<rinnina> 'nightingale', and <autsano> 'alder', but I think the
number of localized Oscanisms is more like 100. You can find some of
them in the REW.

DGK