rate of change

[Max W Wheeler]

On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Rick Mc Callister wrote:

> 	There is no such language as "Gallego-Spanish". There is, however,
> galego or Galician, called gallego in Spanish. It is closer to Portuguese
> than to Spanish and, in my experience, is more difficult to understand than
> Brazilian Portuguese or standard Continental Portuguese. The Galician
> literary standard, however, is a bit easier to read. But Galician is a
> series of spoken dialects.
> 	Note:
> 	Spanish 	lobo /loBo/
> 	Portuguese 	lobo /loBu, lobu/
> 	Galician	/tsoBu, shoBu, LoBu/

But these so-called Galician forms are not Galician but
(Asturo-)Leonese. See A. Zamora Vicente, Dialectologia Espan~ola, 1967,
122-130.

Max
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