From: Christophe Grandsire (christophe.grandsire@free.fr)
Date: Thu Mar 13 2003 - 03:40:32 EST
En réponse à James Campbell <james@zolid.com>:
>
> Fascinating. Thanks for that! The sound changes look interesting. Does
> anyone have any info on *Corsican* sound changes?
>
Basically, from what I know of Corsican and the fact that the Corsicans
themselves say that Italian is close to their language, I'd say the Corsican
sound changes look like a combination of Sardinian sound changes (-us became -u
in Corsican too, and Latin u usually stayed u in Corsican in all positions) and
Italian sound changes (c and g - but also quite a few other letters :) -
have "hard" and "soft" versions identical to Italian ones for instance) but is
much closer to Italian than to Sardinian, grammatically and phonetically
speaking (or at least to Central Italian dialects).
Unfortunately, I couldn't find much on Corsican on the web :((
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
It takes a straight mind to create a twisted conlang.
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