Chronology of the breakup of Common Romance [long]

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

"Eduard Selleslagh" <edsel at glo.be> wrote:

>Note that the form with -ch is East-European, while the 'Wal-' form is
>Western, mainly Germanic and in loanwords of Germanic origin, e.g. in Latin
>languages (Walen-Wallons, Wallis-Valais, Wales...).

That's merely because the Slavic languages have retained the
"(c)h" in the Germanic loanword which was dropped in the modern
Germanic languages (OE wealh, OHG walh).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl