From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 63017
Date: 2009-02-14
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:07 PM
Subject: [tied] Gascon
>
> --- 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?
>
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Funny
but
one Portuguese teacher of phonology I once had
taught that
Catalan was actually a Spanishified dialect of Southern French !
It aint an easy field...
Arnaud