alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> So this possible Iranian influence on Proto-Romanian rhotacism is 'at
> least as well as possible' as your 'internal evolution' trigerred by an
> unknown cause'
If there's an Iranian connection, why did Romanian rhotacise only
intervocalic /l/'s? There's nothing resembling such a restriction in
Iranian. And if the l-rhotacism in Romanian is due to an Albanoid Dacian
substrate, why is there no l-rhotacism in Albanian? Tosk does have
n-rhotacism, but that in turn can't be due to Iranian influence. Sorry,
Marius, but the whole thing makes absolutely no sense.
Piotr