Re: [tied] Genetic Link between Albanian and Romanian

On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:49:04 +0000, m_iacomi <m_iacomi@...> wrote:

> Anyway, I still insist on the fact that /n^/, /l^/ and /dz/ are
>all Common Romanian and AR, IR, MR; it is only a later partial DR
>innovation who reduced these phonemes to /j/, /^(j)/ and /z/
>respectively in some DR subdialects and in literary standard, it
>would be perfectly useless to assert a major relevance to a late
>independent dialectal phenomenon.

Well, as Alexandru said, "the real check would be to compare the early
proto-romanian phonetic system with early proto-albanian phonetic
system...". In which case, if we go back far enough, the Romanian system
falls together with the Italian one, and the Albanian one is quite
different. Well, if we go even further back, they all come together in the
PIE phonological system, so that's OK.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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