From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63020
Date: 2009-02-14
> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>More like Occitan is Frenchified Catalan
> Subject: Re: [tied] Gascon
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 4:10 PM
> ----- 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?
> >
> ==========
>
> 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