Re: Franco-Provençal

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Andrew Jarrette" <anjarrette@...> wrote:

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> On this question you might look up "Scots Language" on Wiki. I just
> finished reading it. IMHO, the fact that Scots has [e] in words like
> <hame> "home", <saip> "soap", <ane> "one", <bane> "bone", <hale>
> "whole" where English has [o(U)]/[&U] is enough for me to think that
> it must be a separate language (not to mention the many other
> divergent phonetic developments).

I should mention that the Wiki article "Phonological History of the
Scots Language" is an excellent summary of the phonology of Scots, and
I think the divergence from standard English is great enough to make
it a separate language, though Italian dialects (if they're not
languages) probably diverge at least as much if not more.

Andrew