Re: Indo-European Origins and Geography

To Brian M. Scott:

> But you have a problem here, because there isn't a sharp
> dialect boundary at the Pyrenees. In particular, Catalan
> originally developed on both sides of the mountains, if I'm
> not mistaken, and it's closer to Occitan than to Castilian.

I'm not an expert on Catalan, but judging just from geography, it could
be seen as a later invasion to Spain from Gaul. If it's close to
Provencal/Occitan fine, this is the way it ought to be. The passage to
Spain (near Barcelona) must have split the Proto-Catalan into two
dialectical branches: the southern one which survived up to these days
as Catalan, and the northern one in France which seems to have died off
because of French influence. If it had survived, we'd have Catalan A in
Spain and Catalan B in France. I see no problem here.

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