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Re: question



--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson 
<melroch@m...> wrote:
> > Theophilus/Towr or Tohuyr at kxrift: Unfortunately, the Greek 
vowel 
> > changes preserve too distinct a Latinity (a hyper-conservative 
> > dialect, perhaps) and many of the distinctive sounds of Latin 
are 
> > already similar to that of late Greek. I have often wondered 
about a 
> > Greco-Latin sprachbund in terms of stress and phonological 
> > development.
> 
> I've contemplated the opposite: French or Provencal sound changes
> applied to Greek!
Then you want the universe in which the soon-to-be renamed Cunwy 
(Welsh-changed Greek) is spoken. I just checked out Buck's _Greek 
Dialects_ to make notes on Siciliote and Massiliote Greek. Do you 
want to talk off-list about this?