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--- Benct Philip Jonsson skrzypszy: > Then there is the question of my own Perso-Romance > Baazramani -- if it is to be a language of IB it will > probably be a subgroup of its own too. I vote yes. > So here is a revised version of IB Romance languages: > > > I. Western Romance > A. Britanno-Romance > B. Gallo-Romance > D. Northern Italian > E. Ibero-Romance No C? ;) Actually, I think Jovian could very well serve as category C on its own. Agreed, it is definitely a Western Romance language, although it is different enough from all the others. Now that I think of it, it could probably be listed as an isolate as well. > II. Lessinu I'm still not sure about Lessinu's qualification as an isolate. See my other message. My assumption is that it could very well share a common ancestor with Jelbazech, and that it has just change so significantly because of its isolated position in German-speaking territory. But, like I said, it's hard to say anything without Joe's input. > IV. South-Eastern Romance > A. Central and southern Italian > B. Jelbazech > C. Dalmatian > D. Rumanian > V. North-Eastern Romance > A. Wenedyk > B. Slezan > C. Slevan I still get the feeling that Jelbazech's classification as South-Eastern Romance is somewhat strange. From Dan's description, Jelbazech and the Slavo-Romance language share pretty much, historically. Also, I very much doubt in how far Romanian/Dalmatian/Jelbazech? would really be known as "South-Eastern" if Judajca and Baazramani are also around. > VI. Levantine > A. Judajca > B. Gallilean > VII. Baazramani Too many categories would make the scheme moot IMO. How about adding Judajca (or rather, Levantine) to the same category that includes Romanian? Otherwise, excellent work! Jan ===== "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito." Relay 10/R - schedule: <http://steen.free.fr/relay10/schedule.html> - rules: <http://steen.free.fr/relay10/intro.html> ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com