From: alex_lycos
Message: 21777
Date: 2003-05-11
> You have to always think of the circumstance thatyou are comming to the shiboleth:
> your subdialectal region is *in this respect*
> handicapped: you don't have the palatalized [k]
> This is why the transformation Lat. cl- > Romance k^
> seems to you as impossible. But go to Cluj, Alba
> Iulia, Deva, Nasaud, Baia Mare, Sighet, Oradea Arad,
> even to Vama Veche, Vatra Dornei, Suceava, Bacau etc
> and you'll hear with your own ears the North-Danube
> variations of the [k^] in words such as chiama,
> chiatra (piatra), chept (piept), k^***da etc