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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The most and the least typical Romance language. We
have computed six Romance languages to measure the phono-typological distances
between them. It is possible to find the Romance language which has the shortest
distance to all these Romance languages. It is Moldavian. The ordered series of
the phono-typological distances to the centre of the Romance
languages:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>17.30 Moldavian</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>20.24 - Rumanian </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>20.54 Italian</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>21.73 -Spanish</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>30.27 - Portuguese</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>51.17 - French</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The least typical Romance language is French. What
ideas have you got to share with me about the most and the least typical Romance
language from the phono-typological point of view? Looking forward to hearing
about you to <A href="mailto:yutamb@mail.ru">yutamb@mail.ru</A> Yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk,
Russia.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>