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I send this to the list too, since Adam is interested habarakhe4 wrote:
--- In romconlang@yahoogroups.com, Benct Philip Jonsson <melroch@m...> wrote:Theophilus/Towr or Tohuyr at kxrift: Unfortunately, the Greekvowelchanges preserve too distinct a Latinity (a hyper-conservative dialect, perhaps) and many of the distinctive sounds of Latinarealready similar to that of late Greek. I have often wonderedabout aGreco-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?
Yes. I must confess I do not know a whole lot about the matter.
I once hounded up what Rohlfs had written about Italiote Greek
(as spoken until the beginning of the 20th century), but his
presentation, and his German, wasn't exactly easy to follow.
The reason was/is that in my Lucus ATL there is a Byzantine-
derived Empire of the Romans in Sicily and southern Italy.
After the Greeks of Greece liberated themselves from the
Turks (who are Zoroastrians in Lucus :) they expected the
Emperor to remove from Neapolis and Syracusa to Athens.
The Emperor disagreed of course, and there was a bit of
a fall-out, which prompted some Italiotes to start asserting
an Italiote identity and writing the popular language instead
of the traditional Rhomaika Katholikon.
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/BP 8^)
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