Re: Romanian APA

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

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham" <richard@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > 2. How old is the p-Celtic / q-Celtic difference ? Or the
> > > similar Italic situation? You indicated a Dialectal-PIE

timeframe

> > > So only Romanian would remain a unique 'modern case'..in this
> > > model?
> >
> > No, Sardinian has a similar change.
> >
> > Richard.
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>
>
> Do you intend to say that celtic change of kW > p and the italic
> change of kW>p has the same reasons and the people, facts, events,
> have been related, eventually of the same stock or they have been
> influenced by the same factors?
>
> Alex
>

Yes, I suspect so : the p/q-Dialects represent a continous alternance
from Atlantic, Italic Peninsula till Balkans etc...

The presence of PIE aKWa together with apa is another hint for such
an old alternance kW/p...

What is strange is that this alternance appears 'inside' the
dialects of the same languages, but is spread on a huge European
areal.

Another alternance like this (but that seems more limited) is the a/u
one.

Marius