Re: Gascon

> Although Arnaud is a French imperialist and I won't
> talk to him (BTW,
> France holds the northern part of Catalonia since the 17th
> century and
> for French imperialism Barcelona is the southern vertex of
> the hexagon)
> due to his lack of respect towards me, I'd recommend to
> the interested
> readers Pèire (Pierre) Bec's book La langue occitane.
> He devises an
> Occitano-Romance language group comprising Languedocian,
> Provençal,
> Gascon and Catalan among other varieties. Franco-Provençal
> DOESN'T
> form part of this group.

It's "transitional" between French and Romansch, isn't it?

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André Martinet's mother was a native speaker of Franco-provençal.
And I suspect this played a role in carving out a different name for this
area.
A typical feature is interdentals for latin *k
capra > Dabro

A.







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