Re: [tied] Re: substratum

25-06-03 18:06, m_iacomi wrote:

> In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> This criss-cross relation suggests close contacts between
>> Proto-Romanian and Proto-Albanian.
>
> What timeline would you suggest for those "close contacts"?!

Earlier than the loss of intervocalic voiced stops in Albanian (they
survived in the Romanian Albanoid substrate words), and that must be
dated before the earliest Slavic borrowings in Albanian. I think close
contacts before AD 600 would have produced the observed effects.

Piotr