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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> Aragonese, as I have seen in books and on the web is about 99% cognate
with Castillian, with very few phonetic diferences. When one speaks of
Aragonese, one is speaking of the contemporary language, which, from
what's out there on the web and in books, is very close to Castillian.
>
Not exactly. What you call the "contemporary language" is a form of
regional Spanish. The real Aragonese still survives in N and NE areas
along the Pyrenees and the Catalan-speaking strip, although seriously
endangered.
See for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aragonese_language
> I believe what you call Medieval Aragonese to be a substrate of what I
have seen as Contemporary Aragonese.
>
See above.
> Medieval Aragonese, by definition, cannot be a dialect of Mozarabic,
given that Mozarabic was an Arabic-influence language written in Arabic
letters and did not develop until c. 800-900 CE. It may well have had a
common origin in similar forms of Iberian Vulgar Latin.
>
It looks like the Latin intervocalic voiceless stops were kept in some
Mozarabic, just like Pyrenaic, which acted as a substrate to Aragonese
and was spoken in the High Middle Ages but later became extinct.