From: Tavi
Message: 70475
Date: 2012-11-18
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" bm.brian@ wrote:I regard Mitxelena's "Proto-Basque" as a koiné from two or more related Paleo-Basque varieties, one of which had laminal /s/ instead of apical /s'/, hence doublets like batz ~ pats . I call this paleo-dialect "Guask" from the name of a Basque-Romance conlang whose creators tried to disguise as an extinct language.
>
> Presumably because the Latin (or Romance) sibilant sounded
> more like the Basque laminal sibilant than like the Basque
> apical sibilant.
>
> > I don't think so. In ancient loanwords, Latin/Romance
> > apical /s'/ systematically corresponds to Basque laminal
> > sibilant /s/.
>
> That would support what I said.
>
> > But like Northern Iberian and Occitan Romances, Basque has an apical
> > /s'/, so the question remains why it didn't use it, behaving like std
> > Portuguese and southern varieties of Spanish, which only have /s/,
> > presumably from its Mozarabic substrate.
>