Re: [tied] Affects of immigrant communities in language change

I agree with Glen, I think that there's a kind of "ö-zone" in Northern
Eurasia, from Northwestern Europe to Central Asia, including a great amount
of Uralo-Altaic languages (with exception of Tungusic, if I'm not wrong),
some Germanic languages, lbanian, Athenian Greek. The only Romance languages
to acquire round vowels like ö/ü are French and Rheto-Roman.
Thus, in my humble opinion I think it points to a substratum.

Joao SL

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From: Marc Verhaegen <marc.verhaegen@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Affects of immigrant communities in language change


> >Lastly, when Germanic and especially Celtic venture further west, they
> finally come across some truely exotic substrate languages beyond the
blazé
> Tyrrhenian fringe, like Vasconic, Iberian and Tartessian languages. These
> quite different substrate
> languages help to alter these IE languages in unique ways, thus explaining
> EVERYthing! Glen
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> Glen, do you think some peculiarities of Germanic (initial stress, ü,
ö...?)
> could be explained by a Finnish-Estonian or so speaking people adopting an
> IE language?
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> Marc
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