Re: [tied] Eastern Romance (Re: RO eccles. term.)

--- m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:
Around 300 a.D. one cannot

> speak
> about differentiated Romance (in Eastern and
> Western) and
> the split of Eastern Romance in Proto-Dalmatian and
> Proto-
> Balkan Romance is to be dated very aproximately
> during the
> VIth century.

> > GK: What is the argument against these two
> > systems undergoing further differentiation and
> giving
> > us eventually a situation similar to, say, that of
> the
> > Iberian peninsula multiplied by two?
>
> (MI) Actually, they didn't.

*****GK: That is pretty decisive, esp. since we lack
additional information about local dialects. I just
raised the issue because of analogies elsewhere (and
not only in Romance areas), but I won't pursue it
because I agree that the "what if" approach has
limited utility.*****

The only two Eastern Romance

> languages
> we are aware of are Dalmatian and Romanian.

*****GK: Just out of curiosity. What kind of "Romance"
was spoken, as far as we know, in the areas south of
the Jirecek line, obviously in "minority"
situations?*****



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