Re: potto

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:

>
> Agreed, in much of Latin America, is an assibilated alveo-palatal
> affricate, pronounced sort of like /chr/ as in "chres" and

"kwachro".

>
> > Actually, this is the so-called "assibilated r" found in some

Spanish

> > varieties (including Peninsular ones) in the groups /tr, dr/ and
> > described in Zamora Munné & Guitart (1988): "Dialectología
> > Hispanoamericana", who quote
> > Oroz (1966): "La lengua castellana en Chile". Apparently, it's a

voiced

> > fricative quite similar to Polish /z´/, also with a voiceless

variant /s´/.

>
> Where is it spoken in Spain? In Aragón, Rioja or Navarra? The areas

where it predominates in Latin America correspond to settlement from
eastern and northeastern Spain

>

Yes, that's right, it's found on Rioja and Navarra and probably also in
neighbouring Aragonese areas. Hardly a native feature of Basque as
proposed by our colleague slatos.