Re: derivation rules from later latin to romanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, g <george.st@...> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 1, 2003, at 06:42 PM, alex wrote:

> Then go both to Greece, Albania, FYROM and Bulgaria and
> talk to Macedonian Romanians and carefully listen to their
> "soft" kind of [l]s not yet transformed in [j] - i.e. kind
> of Spanish <-ll-> or Italian <-gl->. Unfortunately for the
> contemporary observer, the North-Romanian subdialects no
> longer have such l^ phonetics (most Romanians are unable
> to imitate such sounds unless they learn Italian and Spanish).

The problem is not with the change itself - it's with its
ramifications, and possibly with how I represent it. Does the
reflex of l^ remain a consonant, or are there complications?
Perhaps I do need to order a Romanian dictionary - most bookshops
don't stock them.

Richard.