Basque 'sei'

[Roslyn M. Frank]

>On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

>[LT]

>>> Second, there's the problem of the sibilant.  Basque has two contrasting
>>> voiceless alveolar sibilants: a laminal, notated <z>, and an apical,
>>> notated <s>.  Now, in early loans from Latin, Latin /s/ is almost always
>>> rendered as the laminal <z>.  The same is true at all periods of loans
>>> from Gallo-Romance: the laminal /s/ of Occitan and French is rather
>>> consistently rendered by the Basque laminal <z>, not by the apical <s>.
>>> In contrast, the apical /s/ of Ibero-Romance is equally consistently
>>> rendered by the Basque apical <s>.

>> But Gascon-Be'arnais is Ibero-Romance in many ways, including
>> it's apical <s>.

Miguel, does that mean that Gascon-Beárnais also had a laminal /s/ or just
the apical one?

And if so, were the two respesented as <z> (laminal) and <s> (apical) as is
the convention in Euskera?

Ondo izan,
Roz