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<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Dear Juliana and Yuri,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>as has been already pointed out the similarity of Esperanto and
Italian from the point of view of phonostatistics seems to rely on the smaller
use of case endings in Esperanto than in Latin (totally absent in Italian). The
consequence is a definite difference in syllable structure for syllables in
word final position (while other syllables are similar for all the three
languages, having a slight preference for open syllables). Nouns for example in
Latin can have final consonants and thus closed final syllables (typically
ending in –s, -m), and verbs in –t, which have early disappeared in
Italian, which has only open syllables (ending in vowel) in final position both
for nouns and verbs, and all other parts of speech (except for prepositions and
a number of loan words). Nouns in Esperanto, while preserving case, generally have
vowels in final position, thus open syllables like Italian. While verbs still
show consonant endings (-s).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Another point might be the evolution of consonant clusters. Italian
has reduced the number of consonant clusters present in Latin by regressive
assimilation evolving in a larger number of long consonants. Esperanto on the
other hand tends to avoid long consonants and preserves those latin clusters
that have been subject to assimilation in Italian (like –kt-, -pt-). This
difference does not generally produce any significant variation in syllable
structure. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Nevertheless, to reply to the original question the parameters
used for the measure of phonostatistical similarity should be made more
explicit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Isabella<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI","sans-serif"'>Da:</span></b><span
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corpora-bounces@uib.no [mailto:corpora-bounces@uib.no] <b>Per conto di </b>Juliana
Tambovtseva<br>
<b>Inviato:</b> venerd́ 7 settembre 2007 19.57<br>
<b>A:</b> corpora-request@lists.uib.no<br>
<b>Cc:</b> corpora@uib.no<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> [Corpora-List] Esperanto is more similar to Italian than Latin<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black'>Dear
Corpora colleagues, from the phonostatistical point of view Esperanto is more
similar to Italian than Latin. Why so? We thought it must be Latin. Can you
explain? Be well, Yuri and Juliana Tambovtseva</span><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#CCCC00'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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