Re: [tied] Re: alb. gji

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 23:08:07 +0100, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Well, the trap worked:-)
>
>Dear Miguel, excuse me for showing so insistently on "n" ( which is not
>wrong but not the most strongly point); as you know in Albanian is an
>/ë/ and in Romanian was too an /ã/ which became /â/ because of the
>nasal.
>And this /ã/ & /ë/ is by no way from Latin /i/ but from a form with /a/.
>I apologise about this little trap, in fact I have to thank you for the
>vocalism rules.

And the rules state that /en/ > /în/ after labial, /s/, or C + /r/, as
in vînã, sîn, frîn, and also strînge < strenge < stringe-.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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