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Thanks for the quote and the link… Dan _____ From: BPJ Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 1:48 PM 2011-04-18 11:10, Daniel Prohaska skrev: > If I recall correctly, I remember reading somewhere that > African Romance was similar in phonology to Sardinian. Both > varieties lost phonemic vowel quantity distinctions before the > long and short vowels were qualitatively dissimilated. This is > why in the Sardinian system the Classical Latin vowels /i:/ and > /i/ merge, while in the other varieties of Romance /i:/ > remained while /i/ merged with /e:/. > > Dan We have Augcustine's words for that: "Afrae aures de correptione vocalium vel productione non iudicant". Augustine De doctrina christiana 4.24 Cf. <http://www.frathwiki.com/User:Melroch/Vulgar_Latin> /bpj [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]