La Spezia–Rimini Line

The La Spezia - Rimini line ( sometimes also called Massa- Senigallia - line) referred to in the Romance languages ​​Linguistics a line of isoglosses, the Romance languages ​​in the south ( and east ) of the Romance languages ​​are spoken by those in the north ( and west) differs.

Among the languages ​​in the south include standard Italian and Romanian ( including Aromanian, Meglenorumänisch and Istrorumänisch ), while those in the West include, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Occitan and the Northern Italian languages. Thus, the line is also a boundary between the actual Italian dialects ( Ostromanisch, in the south) and the different therefrom northern Italian language forms ( Westromanisch, in the north) dar.

The line runs through the north of Italy, especially Tuscany and Emilia -Romagna regions, and connects the cities of La Spezia, Pistoia and Rimini. Most linguists today believe that the line is actually about 40 miles to the south through the towns of Massa (or Carrara) and Senigallia runs and therefore really should be called Massa- Senigallia - line.

To the north and west of the line ( with the exception of some Northern Italian varieties, such as the Ligurian language, which probably had these characteristics even once, but probably under the influence of the standard Italian lost again), the plural of nouns is formed from the Latin accusative and usually ends independently of gender and declension in-s. To the south and east of the line the plural forms were usually formed from the Latin nominative nouns and change the final vowel to form the plural.

Compare the plural of cognate nouns in Romanian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French with the Latin forms:

General show the Western Romance languages ​​common innovations that tend to be lacking in the East Romance tongues languages. A isogloss the Rimini -La- Spezia - line deals with the pronunciation of some consonants that occur between vowels. So was the vulgar Latin focus / focum ( "fire" ) ( in classical Latin ignis ) in Italian to fuoco and the Romanian to foc, but fogo in Portuguese and in the northern Italian Veneto and the Spanish to fuego. The soft pronunciation or omission ( cf. French feu ) of these consonants is characteristic of the western branch of the Romance languages ​​, their preservation characteristic of the eastern branch.

Exceptions to this isogloss form the Gascon dialects in south-western France and northern Aragon Aragonese in (Spain ), so theoretically Westromanisch also retain the original Latin voiceless consonants between vowels.

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