Re: Apollo (was Re: [tied] Nostradamus and Dumezil)

<Galician is so closely related to Portuguese that some linguists prefer to
regard the <two as dialects of a single language -- yet Galician sounds
more like Spanish than it <does like Portuguese.

All right then, what makes Portuguese sound so distinctive? Is it a
Lusitanian or other Iberian substrate, or some Punic or Moorish
phonological influence, or is the Celtic element stronger, which the
comparison to Galician might suggest, or did the Suevi get in there? None,
other, or any combination of the above?

Max