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Christophe wrote: > Always? So I guess |g| is always /g/? This language didn't get a > fricativisation of its velar stops in front of /e/ and /i/? Not bad per se, but > I would like to know the historical reason, since this fricativisation already > happened in Vulgar Latin... Or did they have a spelling reform? :)) It took place in some non-standard dialects during the early centuries of the Christian Era, and was indeed accepted in Rome by the 5th century. The change is not universal, though. In Central Sardinian the fricativization of velars did never take place: Latin _centum_ yields [kentu]. Also, on the Dalmatian coast (when Romance dialects were still spoken) we had CI > [tSi], but CE was pronounced [ke]. Luca