[tied] Re: Albanian "dy"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Richard Wordingham wrote:

> Since
> it should have been Illyrian theritory one means the Dalmatian is

the

> properly evolution of Illyrian language which got romanised.

Are you suggesting that we are writing in Germanised Welsh?
(Germanised Brythonic to avoid false precision.)

> The handle
> of Latin clusters as Albanian should speak for it.

I'm intrigued. What are you referring to?

> The classification of the language is as follow ( by ethnologues):
> Indoeuropean > Italic > Romance > ItaloWestern > Italodalmatian >
> Dalmatian

Which doesn't agree with the split into Western and Eastern that's
been mentioned here several times, which groups Italian
(Piedmontese?, Lombard?) as Eastern. How you do it depends on what
you want to emphasise - see Piotr's comments on 'South Slavic'.

Richard.