From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63011
Date: 2009-02-14
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, A. <xthanex@...> wrote:
. . .
> Notes: The Gaulish word for 'thunder' is preserved
> in the Gasconian
> dialect of French (taram).
. . .
Gascon definitely seems to be a language in its own right, perhaps as the most divergent of the Occitan-Catalan continuum. It even looks more Ibero-Romance than French with its /f-/ > /h-/, etc. In many ways, the whole lot of Occitan seems closer to Spanish than French --at least in the written form. How close are the spoken forms to the written?