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Re: Romance family tree



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Jan van Steenbergen 
<ijzeren_jan@y...> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> A while ago, we discussed the possibility of making a family tree
> of the Romance languages. Well, here is an effort. It's based on
> lot's of info I have compiled over the years. Yet, it is far from
> complete.
> 
> EUROPEAN SUBSTRATE LANGUAGES:
> 
> * Ibero-Romance:
> 
> * Gallo-Romance:
> 
> * Italo-Romance:
> 
> EARLY SPLIT-OFFS:
> 
> OTHER/UNKNOWN [1]:
> 
>   - Rubaga (Jeff S. Jones)

Rubaga is an early split off, based on a possibly hypercorrect 
classical Latin.

My new romlang, not yet named or geographically located, is fairly 
generic western Romance, having characteristics of Iberian, Gallic, 
and Italian languages. I'm not sure which group it would go in.

I'm just now starting to read the recent messages here -- I've been 
very busy since Tuesday morning ;-)

Jeff

> [1] These are either languages that I couldn't find any info about,
> languages that I simply haven't seen yet, or languages that are
> otherwise hard to qualify. 
> 
> Any comments/corrections/input?
> 
> Jan
> 
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