Re: Latin c- > Romance g-, any explanation?

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 69322
Date: 2012-04-13

I'd imagine that it did and is probably best seen in Occitan & Arpitan, as well as in Rhaetic and Gallo-Italian (if you want to stretch things a bit).

From: Richard Wordingham <richard.wordingham@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 5:35 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Latin c- > Romance g-, any explanation?

 
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

> I hope you don't naïvely assume that because French (not "France" as
> somebody said) has a Gaulish substrate, its phonological system was also
> modelled after Celtic. Rather on the contrary, French is a Romance
> language with a *Germanic* phonology from its Frankish superstrate.

And why can't French have had a Celtic-type phonology as an intermediate stage?

Richard.